On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 16:06, Jack Frost via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So I foo-bared my /home partition, no big deal, done it before, and I > keep good backups. I boot to single mode and get to a prompt. My > regular user is gone so I try to just login at the console (no X) as > root. It doesn't work. I know I set the root password. > > What setting is preventing root from being able to authenticate. In a runlevel S console perhaps the keymap isn't set, try typing in a visible field to check if you use special chars in your passwd.
