[SOLVED] Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon does not accept password
by Brant from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5HD3J)
I upgraded a week or two ago from Mint 20, and have had no difficulties until now.
Starting the laptop this evening, it opened to the log-in screen as usual, but on entering the password it simply returned to the log-in screen.
I assumed at first that I had mis-typed, and then that there was a problem with the external keyboard, so I tried again with the laptop's keyboard, and again with the onscreen keyboard. I have also shut-down and rebooted a couple of times.
I then tried with the CapsLk key on, and received the expected message "Invalid password, please try again" ; however entering the correct password returned me to the log-in screen again. It was only at this point that I realized I had not seen that message before.
This is an HP Pavillion dv6 notebook, that dual-boots Mint and Windows 7. It has been running Linux Mint (first 19.3, then 20, and now 20.1) for most of a year. Windows 7 is used rarely, and never goes on-line. Windows is running correctly.
I found this article:
https://linuxhint.com/linux_mint_reset_password/
which was interesting, but because the log-in screen is ignoring, rather than refusing my password, I thought it safer to ask for advice!
Starting the laptop this evening, it opened to the log-in screen as usual, but on entering the password it simply returned to the log-in screen.
I assumed at first that I had mis-typed, and then that there was a problem with the external keyboard, so I tried again with the laptop's keyboard, and again with the onscreen keyboard. I have also shut-down and rebooted a couple of times.
I then tried with the CapsLk key on, and received the expected message "Invalid password, please try again" ; however entering the correct password returned me to the log-in screen again. It was only at this point that I realized I had not seen that message before.
This is an HP Pavillion dv6 notebook, that dual-boots Mint and Windows 7. It has been running Linux Mint (first 19.3, then 20, and now 20.1) for most of a year. Windows 7 is used rarely, and never goes on-line. Windows is running correctly.
I found this article:
https://linuxhint.com/linux_mint_reset_password/
which was interesting, but because the log-in screen is ignoring, rather than refusing my password, I thought it safer to ask for advice!