Unable to login to Mint 19.3 (Solved!)

[tosim]

Been using Mint about 12 years(various Pups/Dogs about 3 years), and always setup for auto login. Evidently, last time I used Mnt19.3, in closing, I must have accidentally clicked "Logout" instead of shutdown. Now, when I bootup, Mint shows my name, requests password, but it doesn't let me type (what I think it might be-used with sudo), anything in. I'm sure feeling like a newbie. I'd sure appreciate any assistance on this. Thank you.

[fredx181]

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Now, when I bootup, Mint shows my name, requests password, but it doesn't let me type (what I think it might be-used with sudo), anything in.

Not sure what you mean exactly: "doesn't let me type", it doesn't accept your user password ? or...

[tosim]

Hey Fred-Thanks for the reply. I cannot type anything in there. It does not accept anything.

[Jafadmin]

@tosim, boot with a puppy thumb then check the Mint disk to make sure your '*dm.conf' file didn't get combliterated. It'll be in /etc/lightdm, or /etc/gdm, or something like that. That should be where your autologin settings live ..

[tosim]

Thank you both for the replies. I went into etc/lghtdm and below are 2 screenshots:

lightdmconfig.png (4.33 KiB) Viewed 397 times

etcusersconfig.png (20.89 KiB) Viewed 397 times

Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks again.

[Jafadmin]

@tosim, As long as 'owner' is the main user id (1000), everything looks right in those files.

That's all I got for now ..

[rockedge]

test post

[tosim]

My test, AND, THANKS to y'all. (In a way, glad this happened. While in FossaPup64, using gParted, I wiped my hard drive, and repartitioned, and will be loading Mint20.2 to my HDD. Thanks again.