On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 16:39 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 21:13 -0700, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > > just did an upgrade to fedora 11 updating fedora10. In the process I > > lost > > the root logon which I had with F10. > > > > Without the root logon, I am unable to use gparted to unmount /home > > and to > > reformat /home to use ext4 > > > > I realize that the desire to stop a gui logon of root is important, > > but > > there are many many tools in gnome and kde that root can make use of, > > and > > save substantial labor. Sudo does not provide root privileges to > > gnome. > > > > > > Is it really that hard to open gnome-terminal (or whatever your > favourite terminal is), do 'su -' and then run gparted from there? You can't do anything with /home in that case, because you're logged in as a regular user, so /home is in use. > And btw. you've actually not lost the login as root, it is just disabled > in GDM. You can log-in as root in terminals (e.g. on Ctrl-Alt-F2) and > you can even run the desktop environment from there by running startx > (not that it is a good thing to do either). Right, that's the obvious solution. Boot to runlevel 3, log in as root, run startx. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
