On 10/25/25 2:24 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:25:42 -0700
Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/25/25 12:41 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
Fresh install of Fedora 42 after Windows 11. No problems. Install
and upgrade went smoothly.
What install method did you use?
How did you upgrade without logging in?
Assigned password for root (and user) rejected
Booted to bash, used passwd root to re-assign
new passwd (fribb1ex) accepted
Rebooted
Same problem
Anything in the logs?
Install method
Download xfce spin from Fedora web
Created thumb drive using mediawriter
Booted from same after media check OK
How did you upgrade without logging in?
Good question. After the install I went directly to upgrade as
root. I can't recall whether a password was requested, but it so
it (obviously) was accepted. (n any event, the system was
powered off overnight.
Did you reboot after the install or were you still in the live boot when
you did the upgrade?
Logs
Nothing in p0, p1 or p2
In p3 there are a bunch of complaints from SELinux preventing
unix_chkpwd from read access on file shadow. Running sealert -l
gives the message: "SELinux not enabled"
That selinux error would make sense for it not working. The "not
enabled" is because you haven't actually booted the system properly.
And that could be why it's not working now. If you changed the password
while selinux is not enabled, you could have messed up the permissions.
Try adding "enforcing=0" to the kernel command line and see if you can
log in. If you get in, then run "sudo restorecon -v /etc/shadow".
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