Correct password just brings password entry back again [Solved]

[DPool]

I have the choice of selecting "Other" on that login....but, it, too is asking for a password. I don't see how to enter "root" anywhere.

Normally that's the way how to login as root. Click "Other" then type root as the username then root pw. below.. (when you choose "other" it opens a new box under that to enter the username )

Just so you know, it didn't. When I chose "Other" the only field to fill that was presented to me was Password. No new box appeared.

[old_guy]

When you logout and select Other,
you will see one box with "Enter your password" under it.
You type root in that box and hit Enter.
You will then be shown a box in which you type your root password and hit Enter.
Then you are logged in as root.
Earl

[DPool]

Ctrl + Alt + F1 and login manually.. (type username hit Enter, then do the same for pw. "blindly": it won't show anything when you type it)

then

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rm .Xauthority

then Ctrl + Alt + F7 or reboot.

Reporting back in...I just want to let you know that I've gone through these steps a second and a third time. No change.

I logged in as root. Then I cd'd to /home/Dave and even checked that .Xauthority was there (of course it was) before removing it. I made sure it was removed. I logged out and tried to log back in as Dave but the problem remained: the password was NOT flagged as incorrect and after a few seconds the login box was back. So I went ahead and logged in again as root, cd'd to /home/Dave and did ls -a only to find that .Xauthority was back.

So I went through the removal process and on the 3rd try after removing .Xauthority I didn't simply log out, instead I powered off and closed MX 21 entirely. Then I restarted the MX 21 VM and tried to log in as myself....same as before: password is NOT rejected and the login box goes away for a few seconds and returns as if nothing has happened (because nothing HAS happened).

If I was the one who somehow marked this issue as solved, I apologize for that but, again, I'm not aware of how I did that. In any case, it's not resolved and in trying repeatedly to do what you instructed, I don't seem to be making any progress.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Home partition is full. (as already mentioned by Dolphin)

Here's a similar one (though this is bare metal, not VM ).

[Huckleberry Finn]

If I was the one who somehow marked this issue as solved, I apologize for that but, again, I'm not aware of how I did that. In any case, it's not resolved and in trying repeatedly to do what you instructed, I don't seem to be making any progress.

You can remove the solved mark (also mark as solved) like this :

[DPool]

disk space? a home partition that is full would often prevent a user from logging in to an X session.

Ya know.....I think you might be onto something (now that I've logged in as root a couple of times and actually paid attention to a notification that appears in the upper-right corner saying Warning: not enough space on /boot partition)

[Huckleberry Finn]

Yes, but that's another issue, not the cause of this one.

Shortly you need to open some space either on /boot partition (to prevent future "not booting" problems) and /home for this one. Just login as root and make some cleaning for both.

For the boot partition: you can use "MX Cleanup" to remove 1-2 unneeded kernels.

[DPool]

Yes, but that's another issue, not the cause of this one.

Shortly you need to open some space either on /boot partition (to prevent future "not booting" problems) and /home for this one. Just login as root and make some cleaning for both.

For the boot partition: you can use "MX Cleanup" to remove 1-2 unneeded kernels.

I'll be checking into the /boot partition (stranger in a strange land) but as for /home....there are no documents in Documents, no videos in Videos, no downloads in Downloads....long story short, of all the directories in /home, the only one that contains anything is Photos and that's one pic, the one I'm now using for the desktop wallpaper.

LATER: Seems I can't use MX Cleanup when logged in as root. It advises me to log in as a user...which, of course, I'm unable to do.

[Huckleberry Finn]

On login screen either make it sure that the keyboard layout was not changed to something else by accident (the icon on top-bar) or: Press F3 (or use the icon on top bar) and use the "onboard" when typing the password.

Yes, almost all the MX Tools advise that when logged in as root. But (to MX Team) : the weird thing is that when you create a new user with adduser command and login with that you still can't use them (though the new user is in sudo group)