On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:36:07PM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hallo Holger, > > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 03:01, Holger Wansing wrote: > > I have just tested with an 10.3 netinst amd64 image, and it works as it > > should. > > So, you will need to give more information, in order to be able to help you. > > - which installation image did you use exactly? > > - please provide the installation logs. > > The behaviour described is present in the weekly Debian Testing net > install image (I used amd64). > > After using the graphical installer in a virtual machine, setting the > root and standard user passwords, and finally restarting, the root > password is not accepted, so the user cannot login as root or use sudo > as a normal user.
Can you use 'su -l' as a normal user to become root? Can you switch to tty1 (left control+left alt+F1) and login as root there? Not being able to login to the GUI as root is expected. -- Len Sorensen
