Running Debian 9 Stretch, When i run the root terminal and then close it, It will not open again unless I log out and log back in. Is there a way to fix this behaviour?
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Running Debian 9 Stretch, When i run the root terminal and then close it, It will not open again unless I log out and log back in. Is there a way to fix this behaviour?
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Hello!
How do you "close it"?
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I believe I clicked on the "x". Are we supposed to only use exit command?Originally Posted by QIII
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I always
Try that and see what happens.Code:exit
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I tried that "exit" command, and it still behaves the same way. It will not launch root terminal again.
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So you are logged in to the GUI under your normal user account, correct?
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That is correct and the same behavior happens on a 64bit and a 32bit version of Debian 9 Stretch. When I try to launch the root terminal it asks for my password and then the screen clears and...nothing. The regular terminal works fine.
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I remember this a while back testing it...but give this a try it worked for me.
Keyboard combo <Ctrl+D> To exit Root Terminal
Use:to get back to your user level (or a different user)Code:su your-username
If you opted for a root password with the install this is how it ended up for me.
The next install I opted out of a Root password and sudo was installed...and worked the same way we see with Ubuntu.
(So No Root Password with install)
EDIT found some notes I kept and discovered this:
- logout if I used sudo su -
- exit if I used sudo -s
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When I use "su username" it goes to my normal user account. From there "logout" does not work, and "exit" just goes back to root user. Using "exit" twice closes the terminal and then I can't open the root terminal again during that session.
I can get to a root prompt using the normal terminal and typing "su root" and then the root password.
Last edited by Floppyjoe; June 7th, 2017 at 05:16 AM.
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