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[FIXED] unable to login after update 6.8.7
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Well there’s your problem.
Login gets called to check if the username you put in is in the list of users and if it is it asks for a password (behavior subject to configuration). If you don’t have /bin/login you can’t login!
Advice to fix arch is as follows: boot from usb, chroot to your environment and use the built in tools to fix it automatically.
Hmm does chroot sidestep login? Or could you mount it from the usb's filesystem?
I'll put the link to the wiki here again ;) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot
"Run arch-chroot with the new root directory as first argument:
You can now do most of the operations available from your existing installation. Some tasks which needs D-Bus will not work as noted in #Usage"