General :: New Installation Of Freespire But No Root Password....can't Install Flash?
Apr 22, 2010
I tried to follow directions to install flash player (or any other application for that matter) and could not log in as or use the password command to changehe root password. his is a fresh install of linspire (freespire) so i wouldn't know of anyone else's password existing. So, say you can give me a quick solution...afterward, how do i install flash if the file exists as /home/jevans/easyiso/flashplayer.tar.gz ??
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Feb 16, 2010
I am a complete beginner but I have installed Freespire on a PC of mine. Everything works okay: BBC iPlayer, You Tube, Internet Radio except Deezer which, it seems, requires the installation of Adobe Flash Player 10. I've followed the recommendations of countless articles in the Internet without success and my head is now spinning. For example there seem to be three input screens for instructions: Shell, Linux Console and Root Shell. I don't even know which one I should be using. Frequently my failed efforts result in a message saying unknown file and directory. When I download Adobe tar.gz I can't see where it's going. I tried extracting to the Desktop and that produces a file ending in .so. But what ever I do nothing works.
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Jun 25, 2010
When I installed the OS, I wasn't prompted to set the root password. Is this a bug, or did my install hose up?
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Jun 12, 2009
I'm trying to do a fresh F11 install on a Athlon 64 dual core 4 gigs ram, nvidia gforce 9400.I set the root password, when press next nothing happens. I press Ctrl+alt+ backspace and i see:Code:Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server: 1.0Then system halts and says its safe to reboot.
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Jun 9, 2010
I have fedora linux as an operating system on my laptop but each time I try to install a new program it prompts for an authenticate root password of which I have no idea. I wanted to install windows xp on it but each time I do so it prompts"se-linux denial" on the base that the source is not trusted as i didnt authenticate it.
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May 23, 2011
I lack a dual layer DVD drive, I used Unetbootin to put the 7.8 gig Live Bootable Dual Layer DVD onto a Flashdrive. I just need the root password to get into the installer and then I will soon share with folks on how to Multi-Boot this THIRTY THREE GAME BAD BOY, there shortly after. PASSWORD for ROOT to use the installer
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Jun 5, 2010
I have a pristine cd from a distributor. T22 laptop worked fine with a different HD. I am assuming I missed something in the BIOS or? I have a blank screen.
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Jul 23, 2009
I am an absolute Linux Beginner who is being required to do a bit of admin work because the boss just fired the old linux admin. Unfortunately, one of our employees cannot remember her password to her email account and as such I need to reset it on our linux server.What I want to check is that this email account is actually a linux user account and I simply will reset the password for it using the passwd command from the root login. Is that correct?
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Mar 2, 2010
i used opensuse 11.1 ...there is option for root user to create password for root...but for ubuntu i did not find anything like that...so how can i create root password....or how can i use root
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Apr 9, 2010
I was trying to edit a file requiring root permissions, so I used sudo. I typed the root password and it failed. This happened three times, and the process was ended. I then logged in as root (su) and was able to navigate to the file and make changes as root. Am I missing something? How would I edit the sudoers file such that this password would work? Or is there another way to log in to the sudo group to make these changes? How do I set sudo passwords?
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Sep 26, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04.1 to prepare a USB flash drive for use as installation media for a new computer that's on the way. When the Linux kernel tries booting up on the flash drive, I get an error saying VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,1).Here's how I got to this point...Created bootable partition on the thumb drive.Put the following files onto the flash drive: initrd.gz, vmlinuz, and ubuntu-10.04.1-server-amd64.iso fromhttp://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...ages/hd-media/Install Grub2 to the drive via grub-install.Put the following into boot/grub/grub.cfg:
Code:
set timeout=120
set default=0
[code]....
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Jul 2, 2010
i forgot root password and how to change the password
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Jun 13, 2010
getting freespire to recognize my 2nd hard drive and allow me to use it for things I want to save there and such. I also cannot get CNR to come up in my browser and need some information as to how to install programs.how to find installable programs,and install them.
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Feb 10, 2010
I am trying to log into a server with a particular account. Let's say I don't know the password for that account. Can I do this using ssh? I am wondering if it is possible to do it in one command, instead of logging in as root and running su.
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Apr 13, 2010
My root has chosen its own password for me as the chosen by me doesn't work.
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Nov 1, 2010
i want to change the root password for i.e my actual root password was XXXX i tried doing something like :
"agent3@linux-bzf1:~> su -
Password:
linux-bzf1:~ # passwd
Changing password for root.
New Password:
yyyy "
did the reenter passwd stuffs...then i did a reboot saying that yeah i've changed the password,but SURPRISE,now i got 2 root password,weird?
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Apr 5, 2011
have managed to lock myself out of my root account...I just installed openSUSE 11.4, and during the install, I set the root password to be different then my regular user password. Both passwords I've used for a while and know backwards and forwards so it's not a case of simply forgetting a new password.The thing is, I managed to mis-type the root password wrong 2x in a row. I have tried all my passwords numerous times, with and without caps lock, I've tried su -, sudo and logging in directly as root. All to no avail. It always returns authentication failure.I know this is a worst case senario and am expecting that the easiest way to fix is just to reinstall (Not a big issue since I just installed) but I figured I would ask if anyone had a good way to fix this
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May 3, 2010
I have a fresh install of Squeeze with CD1. I have no root password to open admin apps, so I set one with 'sudo passwd root' and then I'm able to open them, but only once. I have to set the root password every time prior to opening an admin app. Am I doing something wrong? Could I be missing a package?
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Nov 19, 2009
i just read that in fc12 you can install sighned packages without root password?
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Mar 26, 2010
Is there a way to login to an account with only the root password? Because I really need it the first unlock the computer next to me and second because I just want to know.
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Apr 29, 2010
'm running openSUSE 11.2 with KDE 4.4.2.
Since i installed KDE 4.* Whenever I go to shutdown, I get the shutdown dialogue, I hit shutdown, it logs me off, shows some text on shutdown screen, and then opens up the GUI again, bringing up a small window, where It asks for the root password, in order to shutdown. If i don't give it the root password, it goes to the login screen.
I cannot, any way, command line, GUI, or anything, shutdown without providing a root password.
If I use the command shutdown now, as root, it logs me off and goes through an endless cycle of logging off, and then asking for root to shut down, and not shutting down (All on the CLI), and everytime i give it the password, it cancels shutdown and goes back to the prompt. I eventually have to pull the battery to kill it in that case..
I have tried chmoding the shutdown scripts to make it work, it doesn't.
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Feb 2, 2010
need a root password to install a printer driver. I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 have used the usual sudo command in the terminal window BUT when I try to type in a new root password the text entry is locked , so can't type anything.
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May 13, 2010
Trying to install printer and system is asking for root password
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Sep 18, 2010
I want to install a Lexmark printer which for some crazy reason wants the root password. The deb installer will not take my password which has sudo privileges. I understand that Ubuntu locks the root pass, but how can I get around this?
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Dec 28, 2010
Is there any way i could install mysql without setting the password for the root account during installation? preferably using the command line.
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Mar 19, 2010
I've recently had Ubuntu installed onto my Acer laptop after everything went haywire with it (a long story, which I won't bore you with). I've used ubuntu for about a year now, and never had this problem before:
I can install programs through the terminal, using sudo apt-get and my user password, but when I try to install anything through the Software Centre I get a message (see attached screenshot) asking for the root password for the 'superuser'. Now, I don't remember setting such a password, and if I did, I will have used on of my regular passwords (none of which work here). What's going on, and how can I solve the problem?
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Jan 19, 2011
I finally got Sueeze installed and it works great for my user account. It won't accept my root password and so I can not do anything as root. This is strickly a home desktop setup and I am the only user. I have a working Ubuntu 10.10 in the ajacent partition. How can I change (or reinstall) my root password. Everything I've found says to boot single user and I have, but I still need the root password in Debian.
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Jan 21, 2010
I've installed UBUNTU 9.10 on ( windows 7 ) when I was interested to discover Linux, now I began to understand this AWESOME system and I began to get ride of Microsoft " Windows " .. But I face a problem that when I installed It I created only one account with a password, but It's not the root, when I tried to login as root, I didn't success, It tells Failure authentication because of the wrong password, because I enter my account password which I entered when I installed the system, Now I want to know how to solve this ISSUE, how to get the root password or how to reset It
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Mar 29, 2010
Trying to install a game and its asking for root password which i type in and it keeps coming back saying that its wrong but if i try and input the same password in when using package manager it works fine ?? and caps is off
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Aug 13, 2010
Worked with UNIX years ago, want to get back in.Just installed the 10.04 netbook remix on spare Asus eeePC 900 to muck about with and see what's what.Installation doesn't let me specify a root password, and none of the old chestnuts I remember from UNIX days work.
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