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Hi All,Many thanks to Mr Meowski, Simon Waters and Michael Everitt for your time and input. After all that aggravation I did as Michael suggested and created a new user, imaginatively named 'test'. That logged into Mint 19 Cinnamon with no problem at all, so it appears that /something/ in my normal account's /home folder has gone belly up. That /probably/ means I can rsync my proper Mint 19.2 into its normal state. Is/are there any usual suspect/s I can try to remove in /home?
As /home is a separate backup is it worth trying to recover the backup? That assumes of course that the problem hasn't been inadvertently backed up.
Kind regards, Julian On 11/11/2019 20:58, Julian Hall wrote:
Hi,This morning as usual I turned on the PC to log in to Mint, however it won't accept my password. I have tried several times, and even used the onscreen keyboard, all to no avail. I thought it might have stuffed up and changed to a US layout, but it has not. The really odd thing is that it does not say 'Invalid password' - I tried deliberately to get it wrong and that time it /did/ say 'Invalid password'. All that happens is that I enter the correct password, the screen goes black as if to log in, then the log in prompt returns as if nothing has happened.This email is written on the same machine from Mint 17.3 which is still on the GRUB menu, and logs in properly without fault.Any and all suggestions gratefully received. Kind regards, Julian
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