[SOLVED]: “Login incorrect” error after boot – no password prompted

[Member Daddy Libre]

I’ve manage to broke my child antiX-19.4 system.
It can be explained like so: ‘malcontent’ is a parental control app; more than what i need for my little 5yo, but I wished to be prepare whit school at the corner and maybe some video-covid-lesson. It can’t run on debian 10 stable, so i’ve toglle every possible repos in debian.list ! (the idea was to re toogle everything after the fact)
In the start it worked, I had found the package in synaptic (for visual confort) then I’ve used the terminal whit sudo apt install malcontent the nera the end of a looong installation it start to warn me Error: sudo: account validation failure, is your account locked?

I’ve tryed to use antiX-autoremove but it wont start, I’ve try to reboot and my fears comes true.

I’ve separate partitions for root and home, and the original live usb if that make any sense for you.

some (maybe usefull) links I’ve found on this topic:
“Login incorrect” error after boot – no password prompted
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/login-incorrect-error-after-boot-no-password-prompted-881131

• This topic was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by Daddy Libre.
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[Member iznit]

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toglle every possible repos in debian.list ! (the idea was to re toogle everything after the fact)

Terrible idea.
Even if you solve the immediate [[[login]]] problem, other problems will certainly follow. Reinstall a fresh copy of the operating system and do not blindly change the selection of repositories used.

[Member Daddy Libre]

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Can I mantain May 3 users in the home partition? How? Please.
Since I want the program on the system can I try whit antix21?

[Moderator BobC]

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Yes, you need to start over.

If you install it to a hard drive, or run from flashdrive with /root persistence to save the programs and /home persistence to save the users, it should work.

Run the antiX >> Applications >> antiX >> antiX Updater

then use antiX >> Control Centre >> Software tab >> Manage Packages to run Synaptic Package manager and search for your malcontent program and install it.

You can add the user Id’s using antiX >> Control Centre >> Maintenance tab >> User Manager.

Then click antiX >> Logout and in the window that pops up, select Logout

Then they can use the User id’s you created when they login

PS: Use antiX 21 if it will work with your machine. If you are going to use antiX 19, get the newest version if you can.

Selecting all the repos made a mess of the system as iznit said, so it messed up your /root. The things you have in /home like documents and such should be ok I think, and you could boot from a different USB and copy them to someplace safe if you need to save anything

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[Member iznit]

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For “malcontent” program package, it looks to me that you will need to use plain debian operating system, not antiX.

malcontent package….. depends libaccountsservice0….. depends libsystemd0 (>= 209)

Please don’t shoot the messenger.

[Member iznit]

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Can I mantain May 3 users in the home partition? How? Please.

Should be possible. I’m uncertain of the “how”, all the steps involved. Someone else may be able to fully explain.

One “how” detail I recall: on the new system, might need to “chown” the contents of each user’s home directory to assure username + numeric user UID correctly match.

[Moderator BobC]

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Sorry, I didn’t know there was a systemd problem with the malcontent program. I agree with iznit.

When you add a user, it automatically adds a subdirectory under /home with that user as its name and copies the program defaults to that folder.

The system doesn’t use the same /home/userid subdirectory for multiple users. Each user gets their own subdirectory.

I see iznit posted a way to share the /home, try it if that’s what you need.

He seems to know more than I do on this 🙂

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[Member Daddy Libre]

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So I can save /home ! That’s a plus.
What’s hard is figuring out the steps…

I’ve to:

1) try if antiX 21 run lìve on hardware, if not I’ve to boot from latest antiX 19.

_ That’s fair.

2) connect an external drive and backup /home partition

_ That’s logical.

3) install on top “my mess” and retain my /home partition in place during the installation process.

_ That seems feasible.

4) might need to “chown” the contents of each user’s home directory to assure username + numeric user UID correctly match.

_ Here I need a guide. I’ve never heard of it before.

5) Run the antiX >> Applications >> antiX >> antiX Updater

then use antiX >> Control Centre >> Software tab >> Manage Packages to run Synaptic Package manager and search for your malcontent program and install it.

You can add the user Id’s using antiX >> Control Centre >> Maintenance tab >> User Manager.

_ That’s all GUI and I’m relieved but it confuse me, sorry. Maybe 4 and 5 need to be inverted, or one route eliminates the other.

There are some others passages that I need to follow?
I really need help from now on.

[Moderator BobC]

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The instructions I wrote were when I thought the problem was caused by changing the repos.

iznit is saying that the components needed to install malcontent will not work with antiX, only Debian.

I did try installing it on a test system and was able to install it, but wasn’t able to reboot afterwards.

[Member Daddy Libre]

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Can I move on whit step 1, 2 and 3?
Or i need extra step?

(I’ve other question regarding parental control but can be off topic, so let’s take it simple)

–EDIT 1–

antiX 21 was sucefully installed.
I’ve created a new user (during installation I can’t proceed whitout it) let’s call it userX.
During login I can input userX credential but not user1 (Me), user2 (Mom), or user3 (Kid).
On userX session I’ve seen on File manager that all user subdirectory are under /home:
/userX
/user3
/lost + found
/user2
/user1

I’ve opened User Manager and (sure) found only userX but I feel like i’ts possible to recover those:
– on first tab (Amministration) I have to create new users (Let says whit all upper case letters: USER1, USER2, USER3)
– on third tab (Copy/Sync) I have to copy from /user1 to /USER1, and so on…
– check, in various modes (login and file manager), if it functional
– eliminate extra users (user X, 1, 2 and 3) and rename my newly added/restored USERs (for good resons in lower case letters)

–EDIT 2–
… or should I use some command?

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[Member iznit]

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“Me” equals [[[whatever name you are currently logged in as, on the new system]]]

found only userX but I feel like i’ts possible to recover those

During login I can input userX credential but not user1 (Me), user2 (Mom), or user3 (Kid).

This is not a “recover” user accounts operation. It is a “recreate” [[[on the new system]]] operation.

Delete the .Xauthority file residing in the top level of the old, associated, pre-existing user directory.
Bulk copy into place the old files, into the /home/Me directory.
Run this command to ensure correct ownership has been assigned to all the copied files and subdirectories:

sudo chown -R Me:Me /home/Me

Next, use the “User Manager” tool to create a “Mom” user login account.
Bulk copy into place the old files, into the /home/Mom directory.
Run this command to ensure correct ownership has been assigned to all the copied files and subdirectories:
sudo chown -R Mom:Mom /home/Mom

Repeat these steps for “Kid” and for any additional previous-system user home directories.

iznit is saying that the components needed to install malcontent will not work with antiX, only Debian.

I only glanced at the dependencies, did not attempt to install as BobC did…..

able to install it, but wasn’t able to reboot afterwards.

…..so, after setting up the additional user accounts, do backup the system before attempting to install the “malcontent” package.

[Member iznit]

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/lost + found

I would not copy this directory, nor its content, from the old install.

[Member Daddy Libre]

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