[Stable Update] 2024-02-21 - Kernels, KDE, VirtualBox, Calamares, ROCm, Firefox, Thunderbird

[nikgnomic]

@JohnML

i hope i missed something?!

Wheel user password "reset itself", now twice

To fix it there is usually a backup /etc/passwd~. Verify your username is at the end of the file and - if it is - use cp to replace the existing file. sudo cp /etc/passwd~ /etc/passwd No - passwords are never reset by an update. Confused by the presense of a file named passwd.pacnew? It would happen if you - without giving thought to the process - replace a configuration with a .pacnew file Never automate .pacnew files - it may wreck your system completely. Ubuntu doesn’t have .pacnew …