title: Virtualenv says "root" instead of the name of virtualenv?
body: <p>For a while, I have been using virtualenv's for many python projects. When I tried to activate one of my virtualenv's, I typed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>source venv/bin/activate
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which generally does the trick. However, instead of my command prompt saying:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(venv)me@example:~/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It says:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(root)me@example:~/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My python version requirement and my packages that I installed on the virtualenv are not recognized. Why does this happen?</p>