Password rejects (I think)

[Dan Habot]

I don't know exactly what the problem is because there's no output, so I'll just tell the story of what I did that might have caused this problem.

Two days ago I got my Raspberry PI zero starter kit. After I got it set up (at my college's library) and got it remote controllable (SSH and VNC and on my laptop's hotspot) I took it back to my room and started messing around with it. The last thing I did was try to change the password from the default, and that's where everything broke down. At that point VNC quitted, and when I tried to log back in it refused. I tried SSHing in but it rejected. I tried breaking in using my new password, the default password, I even had a python script try variations on every password I knew of. Nothing worked.

Today I went back to the library and tired connecting the PI back to all the peripherals to reset the password like that, but nothing happened. The screen was black, the mouse and keyboard lit up but did nothing. It was connected to my laptop's wifi, it's tiny led was flashing, but I couldn't do anything to it.

I'm at a loss, I can't get in, I can't break in, I can't interact with it, and I don't get any errors. What should I do

[Jernej Jakob (jjakob)]

Anything on the serial console? Take the SD card out and put it into your computer, edit config.txt and put "enable_uart=1" at the end if you haven't yet done so.
If you get a normal login prompt at the serial console, take the SD out again and edit cmdline.txt, put "s" at the end of the existing line of kernel options (add a space and the single character s).
Then the Pi should boot into single-user mode, where you can change the password on the serial console via raspi-config or passwd pi, whichever one you prefer. When you're done changing the password, delete the "s" from /boot/cmdline.txt (this can be done on the console while still in single-user mode) and then reboot.

[Pander (pander)]

Is this still an issue? Otherwise, please close this bug.