Login problems with Fedora 29

This one is a bit of a mystery...

I have a newish install of Fedora 29. I am using two SSD drives on a
Lenovo W540 laptop with UEFI boot.

Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password. Rebooting
does not help.

I can mount the drive with a live F29 distro and chroot the root drive. I
have a backup of the /etc/shadow file and there are no changes to the
user. "changing" the password fixes the problem.

I am using the Gnome 3 desktop.

Ideas why I am seeing this?

perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py

[Joe Zeff]

On 12/07/2018 11:01 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> I can mount the drive with a live F29 distro and chroot the root drive. I
> have a backup of the /etc/shadow file and there are no changes to the
> user. "changing" the password fixes the problem.

I don't know why this happens, but I do have a suggestion for fixing it 
when it does.  Boot into rescue mode and "change" the password as root.

> On 12/07/2018 11:01 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > I can mount the drive with a live F29 distro and chroot the root drive.
> > I
> > have a backup of the /etc/shadow file and there are no changes to the
> > user. "changing" the password fixes the problem.
>
> I don't know why this happens, but I do have a suggestion for fixing it
> when it does.  Boot into rescue mode and "change" the password as root.

That is pretty much what I have been doing. I am just trying to figure out
what is causing it.

perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2018, [e-mail] sent:
> Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password.
> Rebooting does not help.

Is it a regular interval?  There are "expire password" options in the
user configuration, perhaps yours has been set.

I see that mine is set, but with a huge number before it's required.

The other thing to check is whether you have a bad key on your
keyboard, and that one of the letters you're typing isn't being
entered, or is double-entering.

If you have an international keyboard selected, perhaps some of the
keys aren't sending the characters you expect.

> Allegedly, on or about 7 December 2018, [e-mail] sent:
> > Every once in a while the system stops accepting my password.
> > Rebooting does not help.
>
> Is it a regular interval?  There are "expire password" options in the
> user configuration, perhaps yours has been set.
>
> I see that mine is set, but with a huge number before it's required.

Nope. Not a password timeout and the interval has been pretty random.
> The other thing to check is whether you have a bad key on your
> keyboard, and that one of the letters you're typing isn't being
> entered, or is double-entering.
>
> If you have an international keyboard selected, perhaps some of the
> keys aren't sending the characters you expect.

That would effect everything else. No other typing is showing issues.

I did notice that a system account had been added the last time, but why
that would be a problem here I do not know.

perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py