# Rocky 9.6 updates and username and password not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [September 23, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-updates-and-username-and-password-not-working/19655 "2025-09-23T08:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sebbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sebbo](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/sebbo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-updates-and-username-and-password-not-working/19655/1 "2025-09-23T08:50:00Z")
I did several updates to Rocky 9.6 to install blender, the nvidia drivers and general update commands. Was working fine at the time… Booting today brings me to the flashing \_ prompt. I get to the login prompt using CTRL + ALT + F2, however my logins don’t work as it says Login incorrect. Even trying to login as root does not work. Has the update somehow corrupted my login details or passwords? Thanks for help with this. ---
**Author:** ![jbkt23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jbkt23](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jbkt23)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-updates-and-username-and-password-not-working/19655/2 "2025-09-23T11:33:44Z")
> [@sebbo](#): > > Has the update somehow corrupted my login details or passwords? No, I don’t believe so. You are not far enough along in the boot process for the user and root data to be accessible. I would try CTRL+ALT+DELETE to force a reboot and then try selecting an earlier kernel or if that doesn’t cause a reboot then just power off and then back on. Your drives aren’t mounted yet so there should be no loss of data. > [@sebbo](#): > > I did several updates to Rocky 9.6 to install blender, the nvidia drivers and general update commands. Was working fine at the time… So after these updates did you reboot to confirm all was good? And then today for no apparent reason you were dropped to the grub prompt, flashing underscore? I’ve had a similar instance happen to me on my Fedora 41 system which I keep up to date. In my case this did not happen after an update but several reboots later. I did as I’ve suggested here and rebooted into a prior kernel and all was well and then I rebooted to the latest kernel w/o issue. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![sebbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sebbo](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/sebbo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-updates-and-username-and-password-not-working/19655/3 "2025-09-23T19:36:32Z")
Thanks! I gave the second option in the boot list (it had the same Rocky 9.6 version name and there were 4 to choose from including rescue which wouldn’t work) - the second option however loaded the GUI, user option ready to select and login with password. Turns out I was using the wrong username hence I could not log in via the blinking cursor part of boot Thanks again!. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/rocky-9-6-updates-and-username-and-password-not-working/19655/4 "2025-11-22T19:37:25Z")
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