<[email protected]> wrote (Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:16:32 +0200): > Hello Holger, > Thank you for looking into this. > The problem occurred when I used only a single character — "l" — for both the > root password and the user password. I was unable to log in to the Cinnamon > environment. I was able to log in to GNOME and work in it without issues. > After a few days, Debian crashed because the SSD failed. When I installed a > new SSD in the PC and did a fresh install of Debian, I set the root password > and user password to two characters each, and since then I have had no > problem logging in to Cinnamon. > I believe the login problem was caused by the faulty old SSD, and possibly > also by the fact that my root password and user password were too short (a > single character). > Since I can no longer reproduce the issue and the original hardware is gone, > I think this bug can be closed on my end. > Thank you for your time and help.
Ok, closing then. Bye -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
