[mdlug] su Password problem

[Rich Elswick]

ya could have left out the vi part, now the emacs nuts are going to be out
screaming for you to change over.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have found it.
>
> Somehow, something called iSpell got activated. It seems to be an
> on-the-fly spell checker which changes
> the color of the text as you're typing it in and as it recognizes
> words in its dictionary. To do this it appends
> other data to what either the keyboard produces or what the screen
> displays. It became apparent when
> extra characters started showing up in grub (I activated it for a
> quick command reference) and when vi
> became uncontrollable (was editing the main menu.lst).
>
> So I found the iSpell control on the lower toolbar, and found a menu
> for languages. Setting it on the bottom
> selection, "EnglishKeyboard" seems to have turned it off.
>
> su has started accepting my password again.
>
> ----
>
> - Drew.
>
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Rich Elswick