can't enter password in shell
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1. I press CTRL+ALT+F1 to enter the shell ( I need to shutdown x-server to install video driver)
2. Shell prompt for user name. I type in my user name and press ENTER.
3. prompted for password, but before I can touch the keyboard, the system acts as though I have, and cycles through the prompt several times saying the password was incorrect. Each time it cycles as though I have entered something, and I have not.
4. Screen blanks and goes back to the shell prompt asking for user name.
I don't have a problem in terminal (CTRL+ALT+T), nor upon reboot, when entering shell from recovery mode. I also tried different keyboards in the Shell, same thing. this has only happened recently,
I periodically update my video driver, and until today, the process worked without a problem.
Linux <user> 4.15.0-
4.15.0.0-44
all my recent updates were pushed via the update manager.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Jan 29 10:34:15 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-29 (1065 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-22 (160 days ago)
VarLogDistupgra
affects: | ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |