Password completely non functional in all areas

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i am completely unable to login to either sway, hyprland, plasma, shell, xintric, and TTY on either my user or root account through LY and TTY. my keyboard is in the correct layout and both my password and user info is correct yet when i put it in the correct fields i get an authentication error.

i was trouble shooting one of my hard drives being stuck in read only and since i had recently deleted my windows 10 dual boot and replaced it with windows 11 i figured i forgot to disable fast boot and it was causing issues with my one NTFS drive. so i booted into windows but i could not find the fast boot setting in any menus so i decided to disable it from the windows terminal so i enabled developer mode and sudo and disabled fast boot via terminal, then rebooted into linux and was met with a boot failure which was caused by the NTFS drive not being mounted properly, so i ran “sudo ntfsfix” on the drive and rebooted and it allowed me to boot into my system normally, except for the current login issue.

i then rebooted into windows and undid all my changes by enabling fast boot and disabling sudo and developer permissions and then reattempted all my logins on linux to no success.

i see a few ways to trouble shoot this online but all require command line access that i do not have because i am just stuck at the LY login screen and cant reach a terminal from it.

in dire need of help because i honestly have no clue how im supposed to proceed beyond creating a usb live environment but i wouldnt know what to do if i did that

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You can use arch-chroot to regain terminal access to your system. Have a look at this article for how to use that:

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/system-rescue/arch-chroot/2022/12/

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What you need to disable from within Windows is Fast Startup. That’s why your Linux won’t mount your NTFS in rw mode since it will consider it still being in use (dirty). That’s a protective measure actually.

Fast Startup and fast boot are two different things

Also, for resetting your password, other options are mentioned in this article besides chrooting:

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i reset the password multiple times using different passwords (1234 and my normal password) and the same error persisted, still unable to login to user and root normally or through TTY.

i have come up with one more idea that might be the cause of the problem, i use Keepass XC as my secret service and the file that entries are stored is on the drive that has been giving me issues. however this drive has had the same read write problems before without locking me out so its probably not the issue. never the less i am going to try and swap the secret service to something else and see if that fixes anything.

im also not clear as to if the secret service has anything to do with login information. but it gives me something to do while i wait for some genius to drop into the thread with a solution lol.

my other idea is to just do a system update from arch-chroot and pray it just magically fixes everything but i dont know if that would actually cause more problems or not.

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Sorry if already said but do you actually need windows or are you just trying to keep it just in case?

If the second is your answer remove windows, if first answer forget this. (Just working through it how I would)

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if i can keep it i would like to, since i play some games that require it because anti cheat. but at this point im starting to think its not worth the hassle. ill try wiping my windows partition and see if that fixes it since i dont have any important data on it. if that fixes it i guess im really done with windows.

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What I would advise is to weigh things up and just do what is right for you.

Have not used windows in years and have never played online games myself but if possible try back up your settings games etc before going nuclear just in case ya know

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nope, didnt work. nuked windows and the problem still persists. is there a way to launch into the desktop environment without needing a password?

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Um probably but you could probably find the info as I could.

When you install have you set the language/keyboard as what you use?

(just going through what I think may be the cause)

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yes, language is set correctly and i tried making the password all numbers to be language agnostic to no avail

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Hmm, sorry I am at the end of what I would try.

The only other thing I could suggest is to install Arch from scratch and slowly add things taking notes. Sorry I can’t explain it better.

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im not doing a raw arch install thats why ive been using endeavour, ive been using it for about two months now so this is not an installation issue

currently im reading up on how to enable auto login, although even if that does let me get access to my system its not a solution but just a janky workaround

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As I said I cannot explain better what I mean. I hope you find a solution.

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I AM SO PISSED OFF THIS WORKED adiolkhru fgbnadfslkg
i completely uninstalled ly then added an auto login through getty
then it boots into my system fine, it prompts me for a password in some pop up once im already in it BUT THE PASSWORD IVE BEEN USING THE WHOLE TIME IS ACCEPTED and i seemingly have all my usual permissions with no issues.

i am not marking this solved, it is clearly still broken and i want to use ly and i want to be prompted for a password and i do not accept this jank work around as a solution. i will continue to try and fix this, will update later. i am way too tilted to actually work through this right now.

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