I enter my password, and it tells me that I “need to change my password immediately”. It won’t let me use my account, unless I type in a new password or enter the old password 10 times or so.
After repeatedly entering the old password, it will eventually unlock my screen. However, the system date increases by a few hundred years and wifi stops working. Everything turns back to normal after rebooting.
This hasn’t happened for a while now, but it used to happen every few weeks. I find it really strange, both the system date and wifi bug, and the fact that I am demanded to change my password.
Did this happen to anyone else, and does anyone know what and who might have caused this? I am curious.
(The distro is debian 12 and the lock-screen/desktop-environment is GNOME 43.6)
Does this happen immediately after booting? How old is the system?
I’m wondering if the clock circuitry in the motherboard might be busted or have low battery.
Not sure if it’s clock related. I had a Debian 12 on a server that had a empty CMOS battery, and it didn’t do anything like that
It depends. Some hardware degrades gracefully while my current desktop system won’t even boot and throws error codes on an empty battery. It took me hours to figure out what was wrong the first time it happened.
I only remember this happening after locking my screen and later trying to unlock the screen again.
EDIT: I am not sure about how old the system is, but I would say definitely not older than 6 months.