liveCD cannot login unless you switch to Wayland

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@cscs

For my part .. I am surprised the session defaults to Xorg, and was also similarly surprised to find that the deprecated synaptics is included and used by default. I would be of the opinion that both these should be changed .. which could also be expected to effectively end this problem.

Maybe there is some reason (nvidia?) to do it the way it is, but as I posted in the ‘solution’ to the linked thread - I believe the default session should be wayland and if that were the case this problem would disappear.

@VitasLoWang

if you actually read the topic I linked to, you might have saved a lot of time writing your reply The post describes problem logging into CachyOS live boot in a VM. After pressing enter with a blank password it just returns back to the login screen. OP initially thought he should type some specific password, but the problem is with Wayland. MANY people in the thread confirmed that they have the same problem and switching to X11 fixes this.

Er .. it is the other way around.
The answer is to switch the session to wayland.
(Because the default session is x11 on the ISO.)

See the marked solution to the linked thread for example;

@cscs

• There is no password.
• If using virtual machine Change the Session to wayland.

..as well as the title of this very thread.