22.10 new install won't accept password after several successful boots, now won't open in Mate desktop

Jim_HiTek

12/22/23, 3:35 AM

I installed 22.10 yesterday and ended up with the white screen of death. After finding a way around that, I found that it was asking for my password twice for some reason, but it would open in Mate desktop. I worked in there for several hours, online most of the time, but opened a couple folders as admin while I worked with 'recovered' files I was trying to find pictures that had been undeleted.

After that, rebooted and when the password splash page opened, this time it would NOT accept my password. I tried 10-15 times, but no go.

Rebooted, did an edit in Grub, reset the password, and on reboot, it still would not accept the password when I tried to enter into Mate Desktop.

So rebooted again, and this time chose Ubuntu - and it accepts the password. But...it won't open either Brave or Chrome browsers??

Rebooted again, Mate still won't accept password so opened Cinnamon - accepts the password and this time I was able to open Brave browser, which is where I'm at now.

So, what can I do to get back to my favorite desktop of Mate? And why did 22.10 change my password!? And why won't it accept the new password?

I am at a loss. Makes no sense that it would accept the password in Cinnamon and Ubuntu but not Mate. Makes no sense that the browsers won't open in the Ubuntu desktop either.

Is there some boot info I should post here?

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: After working on this for several hours stumbling around trying to find a solution, I realized that doing a chmod 777 was the answer, but had trouble figuring out how...and the issue was dynamic. Eventually realized I could boot to the drive using Cinnamon, then navigate to the /home directory, open Term, and do a sudo chmod -R 777 /dev/directory there.

And that worked. I can now get into the Mate desktop. The lesson for me is that trying to change permissions of locked recovered files isn't as easy as I thought. Why they were all locked makes sense but why my attempts at unlocking them caused the entire drive to be locked is a mystery to me.

Anyway, things are back to normal...nothing to see here, move along.

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