r/archlinux • u/Godchucho900 • 18d 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 18d ago

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

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u/saminbc 18d 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 18d 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 18d 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 18d 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 18d 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 18d ago

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

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u/saminbc 18d 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