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Reinstall question (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 hours ago by calamitycastle@lemmy.world to c/bazzite@lemmy.world
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I realise that my keyboard has some dodgy keys when I tried to use my administrator password, so I don't actually know for sure what it is ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

A significant mistake! Luckily there's no real setup issues or anything and I'm happy to reinstall - the only thing on there is my steam downloads which will take ages to download again

Is there a way I can save those files and reinstall bazzite from my original thumb drive installer so that I can fix my mistake this time?

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[โ€“] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Did you give yourself Sudo privileges? If so you can use sudo passwd root to reset the password.

[โ€“] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hmm... I might have actually asked about the wrong problem. Im logged in with the only user account on the machine and that's an administrator account. I actually do remember and can enter the password for this.

I don't actually recall setting a root password for the account which is probably why it's failing.

I encountered this when updating bazzite, after it's done its thing, it asks if you want to press R to reboot. When I do that it asks for the sudo password, which I guess I don't have? What should I have done/do now?

[โ€“] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

When you use Sudo you use your own password not the root.

[โ€“] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Hmm, any idea why it might not be accepting my password in this case? I'm using KDEConnect to interact with the machine, maybe something there ๐Ÿค”