After an update my password stopped working

Issues & Assistance
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After an update my user password stopped working. I tried booting to the fallbak kernel and still no joy. I then was able to get my password working on a completely different kernel on that same system. Has anyone seen this before? I’m not new to Linux, but I don’t know a whole lot about it.

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I’ve had something like this happen also, but in my case sudo wasn’t working. I carefully typed my password a bunch of times and had no luck. Rebooted and it worked fine. Fresh install also. People reading this probably can’t trust a random person reporting the issue but maybe more will see it and post?

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Had the same issue a while ago.

For me the solution was : faillock --reset

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I’m sorry that I didn’t reply earlier. For me, the weekend before Christmas is crazy buys. Like most guys, I don’t bother buying presents until this weekend. :wink:

I’ll give it a shot tonight.
Thanks, again.
Glen

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It worked!!! I’m using my primary kernel right now.
Thank you, and Marry Christmas!

Glen

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I, also, set your reply as the solution for this problem. You’ll be helping CachyOS users for years to come!
Thank you.
Glen

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Happy to help.
Merry Xmas to ya too :slight_smile:

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How did you access the terminal to enter faillock --reset?

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“the solution was: faillock --reset”

Where did you type that? Some more detail would be greatly appreciated for me and potentially anyone else who runs into this very frustrating and seemingly random issue. I’m glad you and use455 were able to solve this problem, but I’m having it after a fresh install. Literally just installed the OS, logged in just fine, installed gaming packages, rebooted and now my password doesn’t work anymore.

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will show you how to access the root using an installation disk.
faillock --reset did not work for me, nor did changing the passwords. I guess I’ll have to look elsewhere.

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We have a guide detailing multiple ways to access an install (including TTY and chroot using separate media) here: [Tutorial] How to resolve an unbootable CachyOS system (black screen, login failed, cant boot, etc)

The faillock command is usually only really applicable if you .. well .. hit the fail lock. As in entered the password incorrectly x3 in a short time period.

Normally this would be during a session .. so another user with privileges or root (using something like su) would be used to quickly release the lock if needed.

ex;

$ sudo something
[sudo] password for $USER:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for $USER:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for $USER:
Sorry, try again.
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
###! Oh no now my password does not work when I try to do something like with sudo
$ su
# faillock --user $USER --reset
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I went through the solutions on that link and I tried

faillock --user $USER --reset

neither affected the login screen.
I used the USB drive to access the root of the system and changed my passwords but still when I boot the system on its installed partition it won’t accept.
Right now I’m on my other computer which has Nobara on it. So, stuff from it won’t help.

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$USER means your username .. like

faillock --user cscs --reset

But again thats normally for something like sudo not working.

This last one being marked as the solution might indicate that the original poster was also talking about the same.

In short .. its very likely a different issue.

Seems more like an INPUT or LANG kind of problem.

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Thanks, this really saved my day now :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: