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yaourt

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Cannot login on boot, can login through chroot

I have an Arch install and when I boot I get a LightDM webkit greeter I set up. However, every time i try to log in, it says my pasword is incorrect.
The same happens when I use TTY2 and I cannot login as my user or as root.

However, when I log into my other arch system i have installed and chroot in, it works and I can su -l myuser to log in.

/etc/shadow contains entries for both accounts.
/etc/passwd has the shell as /bin/bash

When I try passwd root or passwd myuser it doesn't ask for my previous password, just the new one twice.

Does anybody know why this happens and how I can fix it?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

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Re: Cannot login on boot, can login through chroot

Anything useful in the journal.  You can read it inside the chroot environment.

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mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

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Re: Cannot login on boot, can login through chroot

When I try passwd root or passwd myuser it doesn't ask for my previous password, just the new one twice.

That's normal if you are invoking passwd as root user.

However, every time i try to log in, it says my pasword is incorrect.

Do as ewaller suggested and try to see if there is something interesting in the journal. However, are you sure that the keyboard layout that you use at login is the same you used when you set the password?

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Cannot login on boot, can login through chroot

However, are you sure that the keyboard layout that you use at login is the same you used when you set the password?

In a similar vein -- is caps-lock on?

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