Leap 42.3 Haven't encountered this on previous installations, nor prior to a few weeks ago on this box. On a reboot, where it wold normally prompt for login, login: <typing anything here is not echoed back to the screen> Give Root Password for Maintenance (or press Control-D to continue) trying to log in normally just keeps having the terminal behave strangely, re-outputing some version of the above. hitting CTRL-D just sends it into a shutdown sequence. Hitting ENTER many times eventually produces "Welcome To OpenSuse".... and a login prompt which works normally. I find the following in journalctl: Oct 30 15:19:42 blinkenlights login[946]: gkr-pam: error looking up user information Oct 30 15:19:43 blinkenlights login[946]: pam_unix(login:auth): check pass; user unknown which I think comes from the botched efforts while it was saying """ Give Root Password for Maintenance (or press Control-D to continue) """ I recall seeing an error message about tty1 on the screen when I was in the midst of the failed logins and reboots, but I do not find it in journalctl. Suggestions for fixing/debugging, etc.?? journalctl _does_ show: Oct 30 16:50:25 blinkenlights smartd[929]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 16 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Oct 30 16:50:25 blinkenlights smartd[929]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 16 Offline uncorrectable sectors Not sure if that is pertainent. TIA Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org