default os: loop while login as rock

[gritibaenz]

Hi Adrian,

Based on the problem you are describing, I suspect you may have changed the 'rock' user password.

If you added your new user to the sudo group, you can change the rock user password from your new user account by running the following within a terminal:

Code:

$ sudo passwd rock

If you did not add your new user to the sudo group, and you can run the following in a terminal to switch to the root user:

Code:

$ su root

And then enter the root user password (if you did not change it, the root password is 'root' without quotes). Then you can run the following within a terminal to change the rock password:

Code:

$ passwd rock

Regardless of how you restore the rock password, should you ever accidentally remove the update button, you can always run the following within a terminal to update the default Debian desktop shipped by the manufacturer:

Code:

$ sudo mrfixit_update.sh

Hello hmuller,

thanks for your detailed help.

Actually I followed your steps for solving this issue, but unfortunately resetting user's rock password to default passwd rock did not help.
It does still loop back to the login window. (After entering the credential the screen is black for 1-2 seconds and the login window appears again.)

Anyway this is not that important since you mentioned :
 

Code:

$ sudo mrfixit_update.sh

So I can still update the system as my other user.

thanks again. All the best for 2020!

Regards, Adrian