On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 08:01:15PM -0500, David wrote: > I am excited to report that my Rawhide install finally borked, and now > I am faced with either trying to learn how to fix it, or starting over from > scratch.
I love this attitude! > I had been away from my computer for about 24 hours, and my last memory > was that I shut it down before I left. The motel maids might have > inadvertently unplugged it in order to vacuum. I do not think I have any > automatic updates set up. Auto-applying updates on shutdown is now the default unless you uncheck it. So that's possibly what happened. > The problem appears to be simple. GDM is not working right. It displays my > full name instead of my username, and there is no place to click after I > type in the password. It does not recognize my password in GDM. Showing your full name is expected behavior if you have a full name configured in your passwd file. Can you hit enter? > In System Recovery, I can get to root, but I do not know how to fix things > there. Is that the same as the tty or is the system-recovery terminal a > different way of accessing the ways to fix it. If you can log in as root, my first approach woudl be to hit ctrl-alt-f6 to bring up a text terminal and 1. See if you can log in as yourself, and 2. If that doesn't work, log in as root, use the `passwd username` command to reset your password, and try step 1 again If that doesn't work, look in the log with journalctl -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
