system-config-display won't accept root password at boot

[Jim Cornette]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> FC4-i386, latest updates.
>
> When I upgrade my kernel and reboot, the system attempts to run 
> system-config-display during startup, and this prompts for the root 
> password. I type that in but it's apparently not recognized, as I just 
> get another prompt. After 3 failures, the system boots normally. I 
> think this happening during the udev initialization.
>
> I'm using the latest nVidia driver for my 6800GT.
>

This error seemed to be a problem with kudzu detecting something and 
fowling things up. Kudzu does not prompt for actions any longer, it goes 
wilde sometimes instead.
I had this error a long time ago (FC4) and it did the same thing with 
asking for root password but never accepting the input.

Jim