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I just rebooted my system after a week and now whenever i boot it up i am directed to the same login screen however i can no longer log in. I didn't have any password on my account so used to hit enter to login but now it just reloads the same login screen again. I cannot login with any other user because i don't have any other and login with root isn't allows. Moreover whenever i try to log in through terminal with root, it shows the last login time for an instant and then restart the session and asks me for my password again. Any help would be appreciated.
What Fedora version is this? Do you have a Rescue option in the initial boot menu? – mattdm – 2016-01-13T03:19:28.680
rescue option boots into identical OS (same bug) so do all the other 3 fedora instances.I am running fedora 23 workstation edition, kernel 4.2.8-300.fc23.x84_64 running GNOME. live cd rescue doesnt work because it asks for a password for root in rescue mode which doesnt work. Moreover single user mode doesnt work and neither does manually mounting the partition in live cd – pranay – 2016-01-13T11:03:58.363
see here:https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/81179/login-loop-cannot-log-in/?comment=81247#comment-81247 for more steps i have tried
– pranay – 2016-01-13T11:10:09.053How did you get into a state with no password on the account? – mattdm – 2016-12-13T17:16:41.423
@mattdm I think it happened when I was working in Su mode and had an unexpected shutdown, so the permissions did not revert to my account. This did happen to me again after a kernel panic. – pranay – 2016-12-13T17:20:47.850