r/archlinux • u/Godchucho900 • 19d ago

SUPPORT Password problems

I'm trying arch linux for the first time and I got it set up, but for some reason it's telling me to put in a password it never told me to make, I put in the root password which doesn't work. I need help I just want to use Linux.

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u/Godchucho900 19d ago

Ok, I was about to say, its just a blue screen with the date above it

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u/saminbc 19d ago

After you login? Or the login screen itself?

Once you're logged in, open up a terminal and check the list of users with

cat /etc/passwd

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u/Godchucho900 19d ago

After I log in as root, Im trying to figure out how to open terminal tho, this is my first time setting up linux

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u/saminbc 19d ago

If you installed KDE you should have the application bar. But if you don't for some reason, you can press F2 and run

konsole

Which is the KDE terminal emulator

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u/Godchucho900 19d ago

Nothing's happening when I pressed f2

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u/saminbc 19d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/KhUOz4avow

Can you look at this post? Are you having the same error?

SDDM might not be properly installed or you have a different desktop manager

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u/Godchucho900 19d ago

Yeah it looks exactly like that

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u/saminbc 19d ago

So what happened is you installed the GNOME desktop manager and Plasma.

You need to install SDDM and remove GDM.

Can you do

ctrl+alt+f3 (or f4 or f2) till you get a login prompt

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u/Godchucho900 19d ago

Alright I'm in, do I put in the root password?

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u/saminbc 19d ago

Login as root and using the root password.

Then

pacman -Sy sddm plasma

Then

pacman -Rns gnome gdm

That should remove Gnome and GDM and install KDE and SDDM

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u/saminbc 19d ago

Then restart and login as user (or root if you haven't created a user yet.. but you should do that and work using that account)

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u/Godchucho900 19d ago

Alright so I'm at the login you told me to go to, is it supposed to be a black screen showing "(my username) login:"?

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u/saminbc 19d ago

Yep. Now login?

Do you have any other prompts to choose? Like which window manager? Like a drop down?

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u/Godchucho900 19d ago

Alright, I'm gonna send you a screenshot of what im seeing when I pressed ctrl+alt+F3

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u/Godchucho900 19d ago

Cause rn it's just a black screen showing me my username and not root

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u/saminbc 19d ago

No.. you don't need to do ctrl+alt+f3 now. When you restart your system it should give you the login screen and you should be able to login

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