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riazufila

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Registered: 2019-09-30

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] Blank Screen with Blink Cursor after Incorrect Login

A few information on what I use:
- Arch Linux
- no login manager (i autostart x with my .zprofile)
- zsh shell
- i3wm

Whenever I entered a wrong password for my account on the tty, I'll instantly will be greeted with a "Incorrect password" message and it will hang afterwards. This same thing goes to whenever I logout from my session to get back to tty login. I'm not sure to which log should I be giving away to help this. Please help a fellow newbie, thanks.

EDIT #1: It hangs with empty black screen and a blinking cursor on top left of the screen.

EDIT #2: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=262731

Last edited by riazufila (2021-01-16 14:35:38)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,351

Re: [SOLVED] Blank Screen with Blink Cursor after Incorrect Login

This is an intentional security measure to discourage brute-force attempts.  See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Se … in_attempt or the more general defaults in /etc/login.defs where you will want to adjust the FAIL_DELAY

riazufila

Member

Registered: 2019-09-30

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Blank Screen with Blink Cursor after Incorrect Login

This is an intentional security measure to discourage brute-force attempts.  See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Se … in_attempt or the more general defaults in /etc/login.defs where you will want to adjust the FAIL_DELAY

Issue still persists. What I meant with hanging is, the screen's output all disappeared and then a blank screen with a blinking cursor appears. And that pretty much stays until I reboot the device.

EDIT: Updated post to include information.

Last edited by riazufila (2021-01-15 11:42:35)