After installing an update, I can no longer login. I have tried logging in with multiple accounts (normal, root, and a spare one). The password is definitely correct, it is the same as the Windows partition which I can still login to. I would appreciate any help, I don’t know where to start diagnosi…

Press “e” on the grub screen to edit your boot parameters. (If you’re using Manjaro’s “quiet boot” option, you will have to press the “esc” key to view the grub menu; highlight the “Manjaro Linux” selection, then press “e” to edit the boot parameters) Find the line that starts with the word “linux…

Possibly problems with PAM in the update: [image] [Stable Update] 2020-08-28 - Kernels, Systemd, PAM, PAMBASE, KDE-git, Deepin, Pamac, Nvidia 450.66, LibreOffice 7.0 Stable Updates Known issues and solutions This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary. Please, conside…

Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile: [image] ShaadowMaaster: After installing an update, I can no longer login. I have tried logging in with multiple accounts (normal, root, and a spare one). The password is definitely correct, it is the same as the Windows partition which I can still login to. …

Sorry, this is the first time an update has actually broken something for me - I’ve only been using it for a couple of years - so I didn’t think to check that thread! I’ll make sure to do that next time. How do I boot with kernal parameters?

Thanks, I accidentally put it in a line too low. That worked perfectly.

And that’s fixed the issue, thanks!

What to do after entering reescue mode? Need to reboot the system and then logging in to the GUI will work normally again?

[image] zoli62: What to do after entering reescue mode? :arrow_down: [image] [Stable Update] 2020-08-28 - Kernels, Systemd, PAM, PAMBASE, KDE-git, Deepin, Pamac, Nvidia 450.66, LibreOffice 7.0 Stable Updates Known issues and solutions This is a wiki post; please ed…

I read this. After performing the updates, there are those who experience this error, some have not. What exactly does it mean to merge “system-auth” and “system-auth.pacnew”? I’m using another Arch-like system, but I haven’t encountered such a problem.

[image] zoli62: What exactly does it mean to merge “system-auth” and “system-auth.pacnew”? If you have modified that file, then the update will not overwrite it and will instead create a .pacnew file. You should thus compare the two files and adapt your existing file to match the new syntax/…

[image] Aragorn: If you have modified that file, then the update will not overwrite it and will instead create a .pacnew file. You should thus compare the two files and adapt your existing file to match the new syntax/rules/modules/whatever in the the .pacnew file. To the best of my knowledge…

Can't login after update

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Aragorn 28 August 2020 10:35 3

Welcome to the forum!

Have you read the update announcement thread, and specifically the second post?