I recently installed Fedora 2, my first time installing a Linux system. In the midst of trying to set up python all operations that require root authorization stopped working (installing programs, changing the time, several control panels). If I attempt to do any of these things, nothing happens if I am logged in as the root. If I am not logged in as the root it will ask me for my root password before doing nothing.

Any idea what is going on?

Nate

can you get to your logs?

open a terminal
su
root password
tail -f /var/log/messages

If you can get in there, you might see what the hangup is...

Here's what was returned

Jul 11 06:18:39 dhcp-225-4 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jul 11 06:18:39 dhcp-225-4 logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
Jul 11 07:24:38 dhcp-225-4 gconfd (smithn-2562): file gerror.c: line 225 (g_prop agate_error): assertion `src != NULL' failed
Jul 11 07:24:38 dhcp-225-4 last message repeated 14 times
Jul 11 14:19:05 dhcp-225-4 su(pam_unix)[11982]: session opened for user root by smithn(uid=500)
Jul 11 14:20:53 dhcp-225-4 su(pam_unix)[11982]: session closed for user root
Jul 11 14:28:33 dhcp-225-4 su(pam_unix)[12116]: session opened for user root by smithn(uid=500)

Nathan