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As in, you can type in the password but when you submit it, the login page says it's the wrong password? Or as in you can't get the password box to accept foucs? Or as in when it has focus and you press a key, it doesn't add dots to the box indicating you've typed in a character.
The KDE Neon machine I have to use for work does the last of these. But I've got two monitors. My workaround is to go log in on the other monitor. And that works, somehow. Weird, and a bit of a pain, but it works for me.
If you meant the first of these, it's possible you've just entered the wrong password enough times that it locked you out for 10-ish minutes.
Ctrl+shift+f3 Then user name and sudo password
That changes the promt to username$.
Then i ran sudo pkcon update. Several people had this problem and all the others solutins uses comands I couldn't understand but this one i did.
It worked*.
I can log in but my desktop settings are the default now. But atleast i lost no files.
It's a shame you ignored the questions you were replying you. It could help someone see if they have the same problem to know if they should try your solution.
Which was ignored
Not accepting password can mean any of this, or something else. You said what you did to fix it but you didn't say what was the actual problem you had.
Ok to provide more detail After tue updatecthe login screen changed. It looked completely different.
When i typed in my password and hit enter it would go black and the right back to the login screen.
Incorrect password
Typing stuff did make the black appear. It would just fail everytime.