[arch-general] locked out

[Nicolás Adamo]

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 <klercke at prototypexenon.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Friday, November 6th, 2020 at 12:43, Fons Adriaensen <
> fons at 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
>