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  Can't Log in ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-09-21 03:30 +0200
    Re: Can't Log in Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-09-21 03:40 +0200
      Re: Can't Log in ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-09-21 12:00 +0200
        Re: Can't Log in Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-09-21 12:10 +0200
          Re: Can't Log in ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-09-21 15:10 +0200
            Re: Can't Log in Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-09-21 15:50 +0200
            Re: Can't Log in Heracles <heracles@iprimus.com.au> - 2015-09-21 16:10 +0200
        Re: Can't Log in Linux 4 Bene <linux4bene@telenet.be> - 2015-09-21 16:50 +0200

#158104 — Can't Log in

I cannot log on.  I don't know if this is related, I was setting up for remote desktop, setup a password for the remote session.  After rebooting, my normal user and password do not work and my rdp password does not work.

What can I do to recover?

This is Debian stretch with LXDE.  

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#158105

On Monday 21 September 2015 02:06:47 ray wrote:
> I cannot log on.  I don't know if this is related, I was setting up for
> remote desktop, setup a password for the remote session.  After rebooting,
> my normal user and password do not work and my rdp password does not work.
>
> What can I do to recover?
>
> This is Debian stretch with LXDE.

Use a live CD to reset your password?

Lisi

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#158114

Lisi

Thank you.  

Another approach I tried was to log in as root (I did not expect that to work).  So I issued:
 passwd <user>.
I responded to the two password queries and received a success signal.  I would expect that to solve the issue.

After logging off, I attempted to log in with the updated password.  It failed.  The logon screen came up, I entered the user name and password.  But it did not fail immediately, the screen went black like it was going to initiate the session, then came back with the two fields blank.  If I input a wrong entry, it usually just stays on the same screen, blanks out the password field, and throws an error message right above the password field stating it was a wrong password. 

It seems like something I am missing something and something else may have failed.  

Any ideas?

It seems like there should be a solution from the root session.  But if not, I have seen references to using a live CD for this but I have never seen any details on how to do this.  I have looked for hours and have found where others have asked about such details but I have not seen a solution.  Pointers to a good reference would be greatly appreciated.

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#158115

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On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 02:31 -0700, ray wrote:
> Another approach I tried was to log in as root (I did not expect that
> to work).  So I issued:
>  passwd <user>.
> I responded to the two password queries and received a success
> signal.  I would expect that to solve the issue.
> 
> After logging off, I attempted to log in with the updated password. 
>  It failed.  The logon screen came up, I entered the user name and
> password.  But it did not fail immediately, the screen went black
> like it was going to initiate the session, then came back with the
> two fields blank.  If I input a wrong entry, it usually just stays on
> the same screen, blanks out the password field, and throws an error
> message right above the password field stating it was a wrong
> password. 

Are you sure that it's a problem with the password? It sound like your
display manager might be crashing when you login.

Have you tried logging on from the console or using SSH?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5

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#158118

Sven

Thank you very much.  I have installed LXDE and I don't know how to open a console.  Please suggest how I might learn to do that.

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Opening a console is same for all sorts of linux distros... ctrl+alt+f4
do your job, and then try any of the combination of ctrl+alt+f*(*: 0-9), if
that doesn't work, you can reboot from console
sudo shutdown -r now

Regarding recovering password, you should read the following, which should
probably work. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword

Good luck!

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:19 PM, ray <ray@aarden.us> wrote:

> Sven
>
> Thank you very much.  I have installed LXDE and I don't know how to open a
> console.  Please suggest how I might learn to do that.
>
>


-- 
Himanshu Shekhar
IIIT-Allahabad
IRM2015006

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#158120

On 21/09/15 22:49, ray wrote:
> Sven
>
> Thank you very much.  I have installed LXDE and I don't know how to open a console.  Please suggest how I might learn to do that.
>
>
I had a similar problem with a version of ubuntu after making a lot of 
changes. To fix the problem I created a new user and that worked. I then 
renamed my original home directory and deleted myself as a user and 
added myself as a user to get a new clean home directory. I then moved 
most of my original home directory back (after chown -R of course). This 
was the easiest work-around I could think of at the time.
Heracles

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#158121

Op Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:31:08 -0700, schreef ray:

<snip>

I have had this happen when my harddisk was at 100%.
I got as far as the graphical login, but it didn't accept my login.
I'm not sure but I believe I logged in via ssh or maybe I was still 
connected. I don't recall that.
Anyway, on my end it was solved by freeing diskspace.

Regards,
Benedict

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