correction the root pass was working the user one not, i loged out and loged in as root and the pass worked, strange because in the calamares installation i check the mark for making the same pass of the user for root…
So team Manjaro/Arch haven’t fixed this yet, I take it? And why aren’t they using their youtube channel to report to/warn users when they make changes like this?
fresh install & the gui software manager will display nothing, refreshing database asks for password and it will NOT take
and no touchpad functionality
so far not liking Manjaro
back to Mint I guess…
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Hello I’ve managed to come across the same issue as all of you. For some reason logging out and then logging back in solved it for me for some reason?
I reckon this won’t work for people but i just wanted to document my findings.
Root password just stopped working for me as well and it have happen on several occation. This time i was not able to recover it for some reason.
I ran in to the problem today when trying to install python-pip.
Basic recovery atemt below:
`[root@B-Windows andre]# passwd root
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
[andre] $ sudo pacman -S python-pip
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
[andre] $ passwd
[andre] $ su
[root] $ passwd
[root] $ su root
[root] $ exit
[andre] $ passwd
$ sudo pacman -S python-pip
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
sudo usually requires the password of your user account - the first created user account is also the administrator.
… usually, unless you did something special
You can, however, set a different password for root.
If the system let you change the root password successfully …
I’d try to:
open another terminal
and try from there
(possibly - not sure - the password change takes effect only after re-login/ … a different terminal)
keep the first one open until you can verify in the second one that the change did work …
Having the same issue on a new Pinebook Pro here. I set my user and root password the same on setup. I can log in. Heck, I can do many sudo commands, and enter su. But once a session, it will just stop accepting my sudo password. A reboot seems to fix it.
Oh my God, between the Su - and this I got it fixed! Thanks so much!
I’m having the same problem. Usually doing something like su will do the trick but this time, nothing. I have the same root password as user. This usually happens when updating from command line but this time it has happened from fresh boot. Any idea where to begin troubleshooting?
I should mention after reboot everything works as expected.