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#1 2021-01-08 03:09:06
- RubyCasey
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All users have invalid passwords, (except for root)
I installed Arch on a new laptop about two weeks ago, and just ran the first system upgrade. For some reason after running 'pacman -Syu' the password on all user accounts other than root becomes invalid. I can sign in to root, I can change the password of the other users with 'passwd', but I can't log in to any of the users without getting 'Authentication Failure'. I saw a reddit post that mentioned commenting out lines from '/etc/pam.d/system-login', but the lines listed aren't in my 'system-login' file. I did find however that running 'pacman -Syy' by itself right after running 'pacman -Syu' seems to fix the problem. I know partial upgrades are an issue, but in theory if I run it the second after I run 'pacman -Syu' there shouldn't be any issues, however I do want to find a proper solution soon.
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#2 2021-01-08 03:16:00
- Scimmia
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Re: All users have invalid passwords, (except for root)
There is absolutely NO way that pacman -Syy fixes this. None. Not a chance in hell.
Check the logs, see what's it's saying when you log in.
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#3 2021-01-09 05:39:28
- RubyCasey
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Re: All users have invalid passwords, (except for root)
There is absolutely NO way that pacman -Syy fixes this. None. Not a chance in hell.
Check the logs, see what's it's saying when you log in.
I mean that's just what it seemed like to me. How would I go about seeing login related logs past the initial "Authentication Failure" error?
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#4 2021-01-09 08:46:09
- loqs
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Re: All users have invalid passwords, (except for root)
Journal#Filtering_output see the explanation to filter by boot index, `journalctl --list-boots` will list boot indexes with their start and end times.
`pacman -Syy` forced a pacman database update even if the mirror indicated no change had occurred and this operation was recorded in pacman.log, the installed system was not altered in any other way.
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#5 2021-01-09 09:46:49
- Khere
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Re: All users have invalid passwords, (except for root)
Post the output of :
journalctl -bFan of Giorgio Moroder & Mohammad Ammax enemy
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