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From: Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Not a request for help, but an explanation?
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 15:06:50 +1000
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On Thu, 9 May 2024 12:59:57 +0100
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 09/05/2024 11:40, Borax Man wrote:
> > On 2024-05-08, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:  
> >> Yesterday, I installed the latest kernel in my mint MATE 20.3 desktop
> >> here. It advised me to reboot, so I selected the reboot option after
> >> closing all programs, and away we went. It rebooted fine and I got a
> >> login prompt, that looked oddly different. I think it had my full name
> >> instead of nothing above the login prompt.
> >>
> >> And no matter what I typed in as password, it wouldn't accept it.
> >>
> >> Thinking I might have to repair something from a live installation disk,
> >> I decided that at least a hard reboot might be worth trying, and with a
> >> proper power off it rebooted as normal.
> >>
> >> Anyone have a clue as to what that might have been?
> >>
> >> I am the only user on the system. It's mine, all mine, and one else ever
> >> uses it.
> >>
> >>  

Oh one other thing, did you encrypt your home folders?

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