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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Not a request for help, but an explanation?
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 11:22:03 +0100
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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.


-- 
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have 
guns, why should we let them have ideas?

Josef Stalin