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Post by blichaelmloch on Sept 27, 2023 12:57:42 GMT
I don't know what I did. Since my last reboot, I am no more able to log in. Whenever I enter my password in the login screen, it says "invalid password" and "Failed to start session". (What I noticed: My password now is dotted and I can click on an eye to make it plain text?!)
With Ctrl-Alt-F1 the login works.
I tried with sudo passwd but even the new password does not work on the login screen.
The system is up to date, sudo apt upgrade & apt update was made. Is there something I can do or do I have do reinstall everything?
Bothi 7.0 (GNU/Linux 6.2.0-33-generic x86_64)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
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Post by Hippytaff on Sept 27, 2023 21:07:11 GMT
That’s odd. It’s possible you changed the root password and not your user login password. I’ve got into a knot this way in the past.
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xpistian
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Post by xpistian on Sept 28, 2023 5:02:22 GMT
I don't know what I did. Since my last reboot, I am no more able to log in. Whenever I enter my password in the login screen, it says "invalid password" and "Failed to start session". (What I noticed: My password now is dotted and I can click on an eye to make it plain text?!) With Ctrl-Alt-F1 the login works. I tried with sudo passwd but even the new password does not work on the login screen. The system is up to date, sudo apt upgrade & apt update was made. Is there something I can do or do I have do reinstall everything? Bothi 7.0 (GNU/Linux 6.2.0-33-generic x86_64) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Have you checked that what you enter is what you think it is? I had the login screen use EN keyboard layout while I usually use DE, so when I typed in my password what I actually entered wasn't what I typed on my keyboard, because y and z are the other way round, not to speak of äöü and non-letter characters. Have you clicked the eye to check if you entered the actual password and not payyword instead of pazzword?
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Post by blichaelmloch on Sept 28, 2023 5:30:20 GMT
I have clicked the eye and checked it. The password I saw behind the eye was exactly the password I typed.
As far as I can see, I do not have a root password and a user login password. I just have one password for everything...
Does everybody see the eye in the password-field. For me it is new. Since it is there I have the troubles.
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batden
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Post by batden on Sept 28, 2023 8:33:41 GMT
Sometimes the .Xauthority file gets corrupted or wrong permissions.
Try: sudo chown your_username:your_username .Xauthority
If that doesn't work, try reinstalling the login manager with: sudo apt reinstall lightdm slick-greeter
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