Can't become root :-(

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I made the mistake of trying fennec on my N800. *BIG* mistake! Not
only was it completely unusable without a hardware keyboard, it
screwed up MicroB as well. Without access to settings in fennec, I
could no longer access any web functions that require javascript. It
also screwed up the login memory function - now I have to fill in the
username manually, even though I've already chosen it out of the list,
before it will fill in the password, thereby defeating the whole
purpose of that function. (Through all this, the settings in the
dialogs in MicroB remained the same, although I did try changing them
and then changing them back to see if that would reset things.)

These problems remained even after I uninstalled fennec, so I figured
the only way to get it back to the way it was before was to reflash
the OS.

BIG MISTAKE #2!!!!!!!!

After reflashing, not only did it make no difference to the browser's
password manager (although it did fix the javascript issue), now I no
longer have any possibility of becoming root. I've followed the exact
same procedure that I did before, and am using the exact same version
of OS2008, but now exactly *NONE* of the different ways of becoming
root work. Regardless of what I try, I get some variation of this
message:

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
7f:4b:ad:8e:cc:38:e5:53:26:a6:5e:af:9b:34:fe:51.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending key in /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts:5
RSA host key for localhost has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.


I'm about ready to run over this piece of crap with my truck!!!!!

Whose incredibly stupid idea was it to disable the owner's root access
in these devices, anyway?????

Mark
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