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