I freshly installed Debian 9.0 with Cinnamon and for some reason I can only open the root terminal once (after I start up the PC).When I try to open it up a second time it doesn't show: when I press OK after entering the correct administrative password the screen just shortly flickers black and nothing happens (besides the password-window getting closed of course). It also flickers black when I press cancel without entering anything.I have Remember password unchecked (albeit having had it checked once).Edit: this might be relevant - earlier (maybe due to having it checked once) I once got this message when opening up Synaptic:The '/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator' program was started with the  privileges of the root user without the need to ask for a password,  due to your system's authentication mechanism setup.It is possible that you are being allowed to run specific programs as user root without the need for a password, or that the  password is cached.This is not a problem report; it's simply a notification to make sure you are aware of this.Edit: I'm new to Linux so I'm not sure which logfiles I should look into and what to look for. When I try to open the root terminal a 2nd time I get this in /var/log/auth.log: Successful su for root by myuser+ /dev/pts/1 myuser:rootpam_unix(su:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000)pam_systemd(su:session): Cannot create session: Already running in a sessionpam_unix(su:session): session closed for user rootI closed the root terminal before that by pressing its X close button.With Root Terminal I'm referring to that shortcut with the red screen as icon. The usual terminal works just fine (with su).
Why can I open the Root Terminal only once? [Debian 9]
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