[Trisquel-devel] Pasword entering phase repeating itself

[Heime]

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On Sunday, June 1st, 2025 at 6:31 PM, David Lecompte <trisquel at metani.fr> wrote:

> > Have been getting a recurring problem when starting Trisquel. I get asked
> > for my password.
> > But after I enter it correctly, Trisquel takes me back to the password
> > entering phase
> > all over again.
> > 
> > And thus I cannot enter into my system at all.
> 
> 
> Did you try to log in from a terminal in text mode? (like Ctrl+Alt+F1).

I have not tried, no.  I got into a Trisquel 11 LIVE CD trying to accesss
the original system.  But because of the LVM setup I got stuck from doing
the next steps.  
 
> If it works, the problem might be solved by the addition to your .profile
> that is described on https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/gnu-guix-package-manager.
> I copy it here but my email client is certainly breaking lines;
> 
> cat >> ~/.profile << EOF
> 
> export
> XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share/\${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}\$XDG_DATA_DI
> RS"
> EOF
> 
> --
> David Lecompte trisquel at metani.fr