Re: Bug#3227: login refuses, and then allows, root login on tty?

[Michael Nonweiler <mrn20@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

> > Being stubborn, I tried again. And succeeded with a login.  Is this really
> > the intended behaviour?
> I don't think so, but it sounds familiar. other users can use the tty but
> root can't. Has this something to do with that sys(k)logd thing?

No.

The error message is "root login not allowed..." etc. ie.  /etc/securetty
problem, but /etc/securetty is correct, and things soon start to work... 
I don't think syslog problems could cause this.

I had this problem too, when I first installed a clean 1.1 installation.
It just went away of it's own accord for me too.  Odd.

Cheers,

Michael.