LiveGUI ISO how to log in (Solved)

lindegur · Last edited by lindegur on Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:06 pm; edited 1 time in total

I downloaded the 2022-11-22 LiveGui ISO image and burned a DVD.
I can boot from it all goes well but then a Keyboard shows up on the screen and the login screen appears.
I can not find any instructions what to do. Also username and password are not known to me.
The login screen tells me login failed and seems not to restart.

If I do Crtl Alt F1 the console appears without the need to login. I see there is the user gentoo,
Everything seems to work well, but for working in the console I can also use the "Minimal Installation CD"

So the question how to log into the LiveGui the proper way?

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1391 Location: Germany

that is odd.

But if you can switch to the terminal and there is the gentoo user active, you should be able to set temporarly a password with the passwd command.

Then switch back to the gui and try to login with the gentoo user and the created password.
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lindegur · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:08 am Post subject:

The liveGUI uses SDDM. Just the password has to be typed in.

Ctrl Alt F1 opens the console. The password hashes should be in /etc/shadow but there are no hashes for root and the user gentoo, just * and ! appear.
man 5 shadow says
If the password field contains some string that is not a valid result of crypt(3), for instance ! or *, the user will not be able to use a unix password to log in (but the user may log in the system by other means).

So there are no passwords, other means to login are required.
In the console type sudo su to become root and then change the users gentoo password passwd gentoo
Having a different keyboard layout and being forced to type special characters makes it a bit challenging.

Then go back to the graphical login screen Crtl Alt F7 and type in the new and known password.

htpbree · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2022 Posts: 1

User: lindegur
Topic: LiveGUI ISO how to log in (Solved)
Post: post 8762559
Reason:
I have the same problem.
I tried 2 pc's and one laptop. Same problem.
First I get the login screen for a split second. Then the keyboard on the screen.
When I go back to the login screen I get a Login failed after whatever I type in or do not type anything in, just a return.
Why is auto login not working?? Has it to do anything with how you burn the USB in what boot mode?

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yalegodman · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2023 Posts: 2

I don't understand why this question was marked "solved", it is in fact not solved.

It is true that I can switch to terminal through Ctrl+Alt+F2, in the terminal, the user is Gentoo.
Then, when I try to " passwd Gentoo" to change the user's password, the terminal keeps asking me to type in Gentoo's current password.
And, I tried quite a few times, such as no password, Genlive, live, gentoo, etc, but none of them are correct.
So, by now, I cannnot login liveGUI's desktop.

Any one used liveGUI's ISO file?

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1391 Location: Germany

did you try passwd gentoo?
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flysideways · Guru Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 437

After reading this thread, I downloaded the 2023-01-01 image currently on www.gentoo.org/downloads . Running it in Virtualbox, it no longer has the logon problem. Writing this post from within the running LiveGUI vm.

Looks good. Tempting me to put it on a thumb drive and attempt an install with it.

Kudos to those that made it, seems more functional than any previous Gentoo live image that I remember.

yalegodman · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2023 Posts: 2

hei, now I know how to solve it.
in the konsole, if you input "passwd gentoo", the system will ask you the user gentoo's current password, of course you don't know it, therefore no way to change gentoo's password.
but, if you input the command "sudo passwd gentoo", all is ok, you can change gentoo's password.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:29 pm Post subject:

You don't need the user password.

The default user is allowed to become root with

lindegur · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:47 pm Post subject:

As flysideways, I also downloaded the 2023-01-01 image and then burned a DVD that starts now with autologin.

No strange Ctrl + Alt and sudo su to change the password is necessary anymore.