I have just installed debian potato again and now I seem to have a problem with logging in. When I reboot the system and then try to log in on a virtual terminal as root it refuses telling me "login incorrect". When I log in as a user and then log out and then log back in as root it works fine.
Now I know this has something to do with the virtual terminal not recognising the keys properly when I type them. It must be that the word "root" doesn't have enough characters for the terminal to detect what type it should be emulating? or something????? When I type in my username to login which has more chars, then it obviously gets enough characters to figure out how it should initialise itself????? Obviously, I don't know quite enough about all this terminal stuff to be able to fix it. Is there some package that I am missing which gets run before login to initialise the terminal? How do I tell it what it is so that it recognises the keys I type when I try to login as root? Has it got something to do with keymaps? Thanks for any hints. Mark.
