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Solved Kde log in screen not accepting password (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by joel_feila to c/[email protected]
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Solved. I was able to run sudo pkcon update and that fixed it. I can log in now but the desktop is rest to system defaults

I updates my distro, kde neon. The login screen changed and now it will not accept my password. I have checked caplocls, numlock, all that. It is the only password i set for it will not take it. I have no other usera on my pc so i cant just login as someone else.

What password is looking for, why is the password i used to login this morning not working?

Summary Distro kde neon Problem logon screen not accepting password

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nice thumb

I would jump over to a virtual tty so see if you can log in (CTRL+ALT+F4)

[–] joel_feila 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I could not or maybe i could. It let me run a sudo pkcon update and that fixed it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. However, I'm glad you got it fixed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Most common reason is running out of disk space. Boot from USB and have a check as to whether the update filled up the disk

[–] joel_feila 1 points 6 months ago

Well i now thats not the problem i dont have that many files and the imstall is less the a month old.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's fixed, but I'd still like to add that I solved it by deleting my user's cache files. Also if you fail to type your password, for me, kde is very buggy in that feedback, tty will tell you tho.

[–] TootSweet 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As in, you can type in the password but when you submit it, the login page says it's the wrong password? Or as in you can't get the password box to accept foucs? Or as in when it has focus and you press a key, it doesn't add dots to the box indicating you've typed in a character.

The KDE Neon machine I have to use for work does the last of these. But I've got two monitors. My workaround is to go log in on the other monitor. And that works, somehow. Weird, and a bit of a pain, but it works for me.

If you meant the first of these, it's possible you've just entered the wrong password enough times that it locked you out for 10-ish minutes.

[–] joel_feila 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ctrl+shift+f3 Then user name and sudo password

That changes the promt to username$.

Then i ran sudo pkcon update. Several people had this problem and all the others solutins uses comands I couldn't understand but this one i did.

It worked*.

I can log in but my desktop settings are the default now. But atleast i lost no files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a shame you ignored the questions you were replying you. It could help someone see if they have the same problem to know if they should try your solution.

[–] joel_feila 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which was ignored

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As in, you can type in the password but when you submit it, the login page says it’s the wrong password? Or as in you can’t get the password box to accept focus? Or as in when it has focus and you press a key, it doesn’t add dots to the box indicating you’ve typed in a character?

Not accepting password can mean any of this, or something else. You said what you did to fix it but you didn't say what was the actual problem you had.

[–] joel_feila 1 points 6 months ago

Ok to provide more detail After tue updatecthe login screen changed. It looked completely different.

When i typed in my password and hit enter it would go black and the right back to the login screen.

Incorrect password

Typing stuff did make the black appear. It would just fail everytime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Well, you might've entered the password incorrectly a few times, and then faiilock faillocked the account. Can be fixed by going to another tty (e.g. Ctrl+alt+f3), logging in as root and faillock --reset --user your_username_here. If that doesn't help, that's probably neon's issue (mb they messed up pam stuff or something).

On a side note, KDE neon is not exactly stable for daily driving, I'd suggest switching to another distro that's not meant for testing recent KDE stuff

[–] joel_feila 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah i woyld have entered right the second time. Numlock was off and it is a simple pass. The best i can tell is kde issued a buggy update to their de. Thats why the logon screen looked different and why issueing an update comand fixed it but reset my desktop settings.

Hopping over to mint tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

KDE neon is not exactly stable for daily driving, I'd suggest switching to another distro that's not meant for testing recent KDE stuff

Can you explain those a bit more to me? I really like KDE neon so I've been using it as my main Linux distro...

I have never heard that it's for the use case you mentioned

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Kinda follows from the description on their website:

You should use KDE neon if you are an adventurous KDE enthusiast who wants the latest and greatest from the KDE community as soon as it's available, with no delays, opinionated patches, or UX changes.

Although, yap, I may've put it a bit too harshly, and the same may be applicable to using KDE on many rolling release distros.

To be fair, the only problem I had while using it (except for the usual need to add a ppa to install literally anything) was exactly the same I encountered on arch: sddm just died after some updates and refused to start. What made it worse, however, was that they decided it was a great idea to configure the same keyboard layouts both for the graphical session and tty, so I couldn'tc even login to fix it :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Jokes on you, i have a touchscreen.