Bug 13999

Summary:	mageia 4.1: no way to set root passwd
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ting Liu <ting.liu>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ftg, marja11
Version:	4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Ting Liu 2014-08-28 04:44:47 CEST

Description of problem:
can not find a way to set root passwd

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.1 x86_64

How reproducible:
fresh install the distro

Steps to Reproduce:
1.burn the iso
2.install

Note: this is the first time for me to try mageia.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Frank Griffin 2014-08-28 12:33:39 CEST

Which ISO did you use ?

On a standard install, there is a panel following package install (the long part) that prompts for a root password.  Did you see this and enter anything ?

If no password was really set, you should be able to boot the system to the graphical login prompt, do CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a tty (character-based) login prompt, login as root giving no password, and then use the "passwd" command to set a root password.

CC: (none) => ftg

Manuel Hiebel 2014-09-14 21:14:29 CEST

Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0

Comment 2 Ting Liu 2014-09-18 11:17:57 CEST

(In reply to Frank Griffin from comment #1)
> Which ISO did you use ?

Mageia-4.1-x86_64-DVD.iso

> 
> On a standard install, there is a panel following package install (the long
> part) that prompts for a root password.  Did you see this and enter anything
> ?

I did not see it. I had re-installed for several times.

> 
> If no password was really set, you should be able to boot the system to the
> graphical login prompt, do CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a tty (character-based)
> login prompt, login as root giving no password, and then use the "passwd"
> command to set a root password.

no success too.

Note: I gave up and installed ubuntu now. If it can't be reproduced on your side, please close this bug. sorry for the noise.

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2014-09-18 14:29:19 CEST

Thx for the feedback, Ting Liu, I'll close this report.

However, if anybody else runs into this, too, then please reopen this bug report and attach /root/drakx/report.bug.xz from your install to it.

To make things more clear: the root password for a traditional install should be set in this screen
http://doc.mageia.org/installer/4/en/content/addUser.html
As Frank explained: that screen should appear after the big bulk of packages got installed.

Please also tell where you downloaded the iso from (and which version + arch it is, exactly), what the checksums of the downloaded iso were and whether you dumped it on a USB key or burned it on a DVD.

Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME