[SOLVED] I got locked out of my system after i changed the lockscreen

CoolMan · 2024-09-06 17:56:29

I just tried a new lockscreen that i found on the system settings of kde and my password doesn't work anymore. I can't access my computer now to change it. What do I do?

Last edited by CoolMan (2024-09-07 09:37:30)

seth · 2024-09-06 19:47:10

It's more likely that you've run into faillock.
Can you switch the VT (ctrl+alt+F3) and login as a different user (preferably root or somebody w/ sudo rights)?

Otherwise you'll have to reboot the system though ifff the faillock isn't somehow recursive it'll cool down after ten minutes and you'd then hopefully be able to login as your regular user on the console (don't type anything into the screenlocker)

CoolMan · 2024-09-06 20:36:24

Thank you for replying and yes I can press control+alt+f3 and enter the terminal, then I can put my user and password (which happen to work here), then it says that I can type hyprland to enter it (I happen to have hyprland as well) and it works luckily, but I'm not sure if I can change anything from here. Is there a command that allows me to enter plasma... I found the command startx but it doesn't recognize it. That would solve everything I think

seth · 2024-09-06 20:48:30

You don't start anything from there - what is the changed "lockscreen"? Is it part of kde/kwin? Or a dedicated process?
In case of the latter, just kill it.
(You do not seem to be facing faillock if you can log into to your main user w/o any issue from the console)

CoolMan · 2024-09-06 20:55:32

It is called “Sugar Candy for SDDM, by Marian Arlt (GPL-3.0-or-later)“ with this link: https://framaqit.org/MarianArlt/sddm-sugar-candy I found it on the get new plugins option on kde system settings. I would love to kill it but how do I do that?

Edit: the link doesn't seem to work sorry it's a GitHub page

Last edited by CoolMan (2024-09-06 20:58:37)

seth · 2024-09-06 21:07:07

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sddm-sugar-candy-git is not a "lockscreen" but an SDDM theme.
As you can see in the AUR, it depends on some Qt5 QtQuick packages you probably don't have installed?

In doubt you can manually edit the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Configuration and set the theme to "breeze"

Edit: "breeze", no capital "B" - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Theme_settings

Last edited by seth (2024-09-06 21:07:57)

CoolMan · 2024-09-06 22:53:35

Hey I am editing this file right now with nano /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/default.conf. I went on the themes section and changed the "Current=" to "Current=breeze" and it doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?

seth · 2024-09-07 06:54:04

tail -n 1000 /{usr/lib/sddm,etc}/sddm.conf{.d/*,}

Then please post a complete system journal to illustrate the sddm failure

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

CoolMan · 2024-09-07 09:36:45

I finally fixed it! I typed your command:

tail -n 1000 /{usr/lib/sddm,etc}/sddm.conf{.d/*,}

and it showed me at the very end this file:

/etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

where inside there was a text called themes with the current being called sugar-candy. I entered the file with nano and changed it to breeze and it worked.

I also tried to press

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

but before it wouldn't show me anything, now however it shows a link with my activity. But anyways it is over...
Thank you so much for helping me seth and for your patience, you just saved me a week of reading the wiki just to enter my system.

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#1 2024-09-06 17:56:29

[SOLVED] I got locked out of my system after i changed the lockscreen

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