[Discuss] Debian keeps asking for root password for maintenance

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 16:17:21 EST 2022


On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:52:22 -0500
Rich Pieri <Richard.Pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any clues what the problem is or what I inadvertently changed to cause
> this behavior?

Found it. Technically PEBKAC: I have the OS configured to use kexec
which reloads the kernel instead of doing a hardware restart. And I
guess I last cold booted with a manually added "single". Which carried
over to the kexec restarts. Halt and restart, it's behaving as expected
again.

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