On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, John Leget wrote: > Eeek, > > Just made the mistake of trying a terminal switch whilst running quake2 > 3.2 beta ( curiousity did indeed kill the cat here <grin>) anyway > resulted in a total lockup. took of 3dfx loop cable and bypassed monitor > no luck :(. > No response on numlock/caps either so i had to reboot. > > When it came back up i could not log on as root, password not accepted, > taking a stab i tried again using <blank> password phew sigh of relief > ok, ive restored the root account password but how the hell did it > vanish on me and become blank. > Suspected at first file corruption as i had to reset the pc , but my > normal user account was fine ??? so that doesnt make sense. >
Err.... IIRC svgalib plays directly with hardware and so runs as root: stf if it crashes and burns, it could do stuff like this.... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
