error creating the child process for this terminal

[Oliver Grawert]

hi
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 15:55 +0200 schrieb Siggy Brentrup:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 13:24 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 14:09 +0300 schrieb sam R:
> > 
> > > Now, since Ubuntu doesn't allow you to sign-in as root from the
> > > start-up GUI window, I'm having a problem modifying files to fix the
> > > Terminal and Update Manager errors.
> > you can always boot into single user mode, that will get you into a root
> > terminal ...
> 
> Tried that the other week, I was prompted for *root*'s password
> which doesn't exist :(
that can happen if you have set a rootpw once and locked it later again
(i think there is a bug open for sulogin about that)

ciao
	oli
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