2006/8/19, Hervé <herve-news-mi@wanadoo.fr>:
>
> I don't know if i translate your Email correctly,but to set the password
> of root with "gentoo livecd" the cmd is :
> ...$ sudo passwd
> After you can used su to obtain the root privileges.
>

The last few lines in the log (still) are:

GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - Exception received during 'Set the root
password': SetRootPasswordError :FATAL: set_root_password: Failure to set
root password!
GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py",
line 165, in run
    self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']()
GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - File
"/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 1189, in set_root_password
    raise GLIException("SetRootPasswordError", 'fatal', 'set_root_password',
"Failure to set root password!")
GLI: August 19 2006 21:50:09 - GLIException: SetRootPasswordError :FATAL:
set_root_password: Failure to set root password!


Regards,

Martin S