Re: odd passwd problem.
On Saturday 03 August 2019 06:49:41 Curt wrote:
> On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > [+3038.26s] DEBUG: Session pid=490: Authentication complete with
> > return value 7: Authentication failure
>
> Check permissions on '~.Xauthority' file maybe (think it should be
> gene:gene). Maybe that file is 'stale' (whatever that might mean).
> Maybe you could move it out of the way and see if you can log in then.
>
> curty@einstein:~$ ls -l .Xauthority
> -rw------- 1 curty curty 102 Aug 3 09:17 .Xauthority
rm'd it.
> I'm a lightdm user myself.
>
> You might also try 'dpkg-reconfigure lightdm' (which might overwrite a
> corrupted config with something fresh).
Took several seconds to sudo it, no errors.
>
> Stabs in the dark. You enter username/password and it says: "Incorrect
> password. Try again, Gene"?
"incorrect password, please try again"
So I clicked back in the username box, and verified my pw as displayed
there, then back to geneTAB, put in pw againENTER, incorrect yadda
so I refreshed the pw again, but rather than an ENTER, picked up the
mouse and clicked the login button, worked. WTH? I've been using enter
for 20 years. If this is how it works NOW, its a bug. That also has been
tried, several times, always failed. This is so crazy I'm going to
reboot it and try again. BRB.
And this is crazier yet, I had a ready to work xfce4 screen with 4
workspaces when I walked away, stopping for about a minute in front of
another machine which has been digging a woodruff key socket in the side
of a Rockwell 60C shaft, which its been doing by EDM since yesterday
mid-morning, part of the big lathe this pi is running, long enough to
note that using EDM, I've burnt more off the end of the carbide tool
doing the erosion than the slot is deep. 35 thou to go, but the slot
needs another 100 thou yet.
Then came back in here and typed the above. And after I said BRB, I
refilled my morning coffee and walked back out to be greeted by a blank
screen with the login greeter asking for my pw, tried twice, once with
an enter, once with a mouse click on the login button, both failed,
incorrect passwd.
Next?
Thanks Curt.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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