# Rocky 9.6 update changed my login screen/password. I can't login **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Tags:** rocky-linux-9\ **Created:** [June 5, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678 "2025-06-05T17:15:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sheldon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/sheldon/32/5467_2.png) [@Sheldon](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Sheldon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/1 "2025-06-05T17:15:27Z")
Hey there… I have just upgraded to Rocky Linux 9.6. I can no longer login at the computer. My usual welcome screen has been changed completely, although it seems to still be running sddm. I usually login to a Plasma desktop but it will not accept my password, although it uses the custom icon that I had for me as a user. I can still ssh into the machine as I always did (and it DOES recognize my password) and I can get root access, but only for the command line. I am at a loss as to what I can do! I tried to use an older kernel, but it also was sending me to the new login screen. ---
**Author:** ![FrankCox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/frankcox/32/1572_2.png) [@FrankCox](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/FrankCox)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/2 "2025-06-05T17:41:25Z")
Since you can log in as root, do that. Then change your user password to whatever you think it should be and try to log in after that. ---
**Author:** ![Sheldon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/sheldon/32/5467_2.png) [@Sheldon](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Sheldon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/3 "2025-06-05T17:48:21Z")
Hi! Thanks for your reply. I did that from an ssh session, and as root, I changed my own password. I rebooted and tried to use the password, and I got the exact same result. No login. For the record, there is also no way to change session type from the login screen. This is frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![Sheldon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/sheldon/32/5467_2.png) [@Sheldon](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Sheldon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/4 "2025-06-05T18:19:13Z")
I am also receiving sporadic errors from my mouse/keyboard, when I login on the machine with Ctrl+Alt+F3 (I can get a terminal like that): logitech-hidpp-device 0003:046D:4091:00005: hidpp\_root\_get\_protocol\_version: received protocol error 0x80 So, it makes sense that it is my keyboard ---
**Author:** ![Sheldon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/sheldon/32/5467_2.png) [@Sheldon](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Sheldon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/5 "2025-06-05T19:08:59Z")
Well, that’s not it. ---
**Author:** ![FrankCox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/frankcox/32/1572_2.png) [@FrankCox](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/FrankCox)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/6 "2025-06-05T21:50:23Z")
What happens if you log in to a terminal session as your username and start your desktop session from there? ---
**Author:** ![Sheldon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/sheldon/32/5467_2.png) [@Sheldon](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Sheldon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/7 "2025-06-05T22:15:49Z")
I have been furiously working away at this… I didn’t try that, exactly, but I did install gdm and enable it as my display manager. Gdm comes up and works just fine for logging me into Gnome on the machine… (Yay). Now: I will need to find a way to make KDE Plasma work with Rocky Linux 9.6 (It was working until today). I misstated the problem. But I thank you very much for your efforts to guide me to the correct solution. ---
**Author:** ![Sheldon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/sheldon/32/5467_2.png) [@Sheldon](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Sheldon)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/8 "2025-06-06T18:37:21Z")
So, it seems that the reason that I could not login to Rocky was that I had sddm as my display manager, but since my KDE update is broken (that’s a whole other matter), it couldn’t log me into anything, and it kept showing me the default prompt for login. I really REALLY don’t like gnome at all, so I will have to find some other solution to that, but for this, I can lay it to rest. Thanks Frank! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-update-changed-my-login-screen-password-i-cant-login/18678/9 "2025-08-05T18:37:52Z")
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