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(I'm new to Linux, and my English might not be perfect, so please bear with me.)
When I boot the system, I'm prompted for a password. I enter the password and press Enter, but the system says that the authentication failed. To troubleshoot, I pressed Ctrl + Alt + F1, entered my login, and then entered the password. However, I encountered the error "Login incorrect."
I've been using antiX for a couple of days, and everything was working fine until now. I was hoping to learn more about Linux through this distribution, but I'm stuck and don't know what went wrong.
Distribution: ChromeOS,SlackWare,Android and Lubuntu
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It would greatly help us better diagnose the OPs issues we'd need some log files and other supportive information so that we can guide the OP to a more optimum answer to the question.
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