On 11/19/2012 02:26 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
> I finally broke down and replaced F16 with F17 on my laptop with a clean
> install, except for /home. The good news is that the boot issue went away,
> proving that it was a software issue not a kernel issue. The bad news is
> that after installing yumex I can't get it to run. It asks me to
> authenticate, but always fails, claiming the password's wrong. I know that
> I haven't forgotten the root password because it's the same one I used to
> install yumex.
Isn't it asking you for YOUR password and not root's?
Did you select for you to be in the administartors group? If so you can
now do a lot of things previously restricted to root; one of them is
install software. But everytime you have to authenticate YOURSELF.
I kind of like this move.