[arch-general] locked out
Hello all, After a full upgrade it seems I'm locked out :-( The system boots normally, and shows the xdm login screen. But my password is not accepted. Same in a tty, also for root. I can boot using an installation stick, mount all partitions under /mnt as during installation, and do an arch-chroot /mnt I reset my password and the root password in that environment, but that didn't help. After a normal boot I'm still locked out. Any hints to solve this will be much appreciated ! -- FA
Do you have multiple keyboard layouts set up? Or do you use a layout other than US-QWERTY? I've had issues with that before.
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On Friday, November 6th, 2020 at 12:43, Fons Adriaensen
Hello all,
After a full upgrade it seems I'm locked out :-(
The system boots normally, and shows the xdm login screen.
But my password is not accepted. Same in a tty, also for
root.
I can boot using an installation stick, mount all partitions
under /mnt as during installation, and do an arch-chroot /mnt
I reset my password and the root password in that environment,
but that didn't help. After a normal boot I'm still locked out.
Any hints to solve this will be much appreciated !
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FA
I've had suffered something similar with passwords having special
characters in. If the keyboard language is somehow changed, the way to type
them is no longer what we think it is, and so the password input doesn't
match.
Encryption keys are also not fully friendly with special characters. Or
maybe they are, but using these in the terminal sometimes leads to
unthought commands / instructions.
Regards,
Nicolás Adamo
On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 14:45 Konnor Klercke
Do you have multiple keyboard layouts set up? Or do you use a layout other than US-QWERTY? I've had issues with that before.
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On Friday, November 6th, 2020 at 12:43, Fons Adriaensen < fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
Hello all,
After a full upgrade it seems I'm locked out :-(
The system boots normally, and shows the xdm login screen.
But my password is not accepted. Same in a tty, also for
root.
I can boot using an installation stick, mount all partitions
under /mnt as during installation, and do an arch-chroot /mnt
I reset my password and the root password in that environment,
but that didn't help. After a normal boot I'm still locked out.
Any hints to solve this will be much appreciated !
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FA
Nov 6 2020, Fons Adriaensen has written:
Hello all,
After a full upgrade it seems I'm locked out :-( Do you have free space on your root partition and/or whereever /tmp is mounted on? I had a few issues a couple of times, especially with the extra storage of new package files. Though even then, I think, I could log into the system in emergency one-terminal mode.
HTH. Best wishes, Jeanette
The system boots normally, and shows the xdm login screen. But my password is not accepted. Same in a tty, also for root.
I can boot using an installation stick, mount all partitions under /mnt as during installation, and do an arch-chroot /mnt
I reset my password and the root password in that environment, but that didn't help. After a normal boot I'm still locked out.
Any hints to solve this will be much appreciated !
-- FA
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Just boot into the faulty environment, try the log in a couple of times (perhaps even on a TTY), reboot into recovery, inspect the journald and/or syslog records of the events, if any. Optionally enable debug logging on libpam. The answers should present themselves.
On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 07:02:53PM +0100, Jens John wrote:
Just boot into the faulty environment, try the log in a couple of times (perhaps even on a TTY), reboot into recovery, inspect the journald and/or syslog records of the events, if any.
Excellent advice ! Seems /usr/lib/security/pam_tally.so and pam_tally2.so were missing. Rsync'd them from another machine, all OK now ! Now why these two were missing is the next question ... Many thanks to all who responded, and to Jens in particular. -- FA
participants (5)
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Fons Adriaensen
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Jeanette C.
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Jens John
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Konnor Klercke
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Nicolás Adamo