During installation I opted for the same password for me and root and for autologin. It takes 7 minutes to boot and eventually shows the login screen. I can login as root but not as myself. It does not say “Invalid password” it bounces back to the terminal and back to the login screen. I created a new user with the same password and this works fine, surprisingly I did this from the guest account! The guest account also works with the same password. I have used the User S/w to change the password but stll cannot login and there is no option to delete the account.How can I delete the faulty account? How can I get autologin to work?
I have 95 updates pending but when I try to install as root or guest or as my new user I get the message “failed to run transaction hooks”.
I would like to test this interesting distro further but these 2 bugs are preventing me from continuing. Also I need to investigate the 7 minute bootup
-S, --status
Displays information about the account status. The status information consists of seven fields. The first field
is the login name of the user. The second field indicates whether the user account has a locked password
(L), no password (NP) or has a usable password (P). The third field shows the date of the last
Change password. The next four fields are the minimum age, the maximum age, the duration of
Warning and the duration of inactivity for the password. The periods are expressed in days.
I think it is a corrupt installation or you copied something from another distribution into the ~/ folder.
Some DE use UID 1000 Garuda use 1001
and for Guest UID 1001 Garuda use 1000
After installing Garuda or in your previous life ?
Best would be to download the ISO again and reinstall it.
@librewish Garuda does seem to have some kind of issue with passwords Last night for the second time My password would not be excepted till I did a reboot. First time was the previous install along side Manjaro, and last night with this install having the entire drive.
I don’t even have any idea what that is, much less know how to change it. Must of been changed somehow when I removed the Guest, but then again in the other install I hadn’t touched guest. I can tell you it refused to remove the Guest 2 times before it finally did remove it. As for trying to convert another distro to Garuda, simply no. This ISO for this and the last install was straight from you’re home page.
That could be the case for both of us. Before wiping this drive Manjaro had just done a good size update that include updates for that “pam” and they posted a pretty strong warning about possible bugs.
I can see now that other users have had problems when installing alongside other distros. I did this and elected not to install grub. I used my other distro to run update-grub. This did not find Garuda so I had to modify the Garuda file system to remove the ‘@’ from the folder names. This enabled me to boot into Garuda but I had the root partition with a home folder containg Guest plus a complete copy of the root partition including another home folder. My users were in /home/guest and /home/home/michael. The new user I created was in /home. This explains why michael would not load and probably explains a myriad other problems I was hoping to solve. I will re-install and give it a fair go. Thanks for all your replies and congrats on a very interesting distro.
Just a question here - why is that? Is there some advantage to it being contrary to most distros defaults? I’ve certainly run into a few disadvantages…
Yeah - I know how it got that way, but still wondering about an advantage? After all, if the useradd includes -mu 1002, then uid 1000 is still there for the new system ‘owner’. Which saves a LOT of trouble for interacting with other distros and resources…
Please explain what you think actually happened since I did not convert another DE to Garuda. and how to correct it and get rid of Guess once and for all. Was not amused to see a guess account I did not create, was not amused to find this Guess account cannot be deleted, which is probably what changed the above. 3 attempts to remove it, get told it’s gone, only to find during a logoff that it’s still there. Might want to split these off to anew thread. Thanks