sudo no longer accepts my login password

[mbohets]

Yesterday I installed Kubuntu 14.04, I add a number of packages, installed Brother printer drivers, everything worked perfectly.
Today, I try to add some more packages, and the package manager does not accept my password anymore.
When I type sudo -i in konsole, it does not accept the passwd either.

When I go in a terminal session with ctrl-alt-F1, I can login and I also can go to root with sudo -i, so there it accepts my password.
Any ideas why this is and how to solve it ?

The same thing happens in linux mint 17 KDE, since it is based on Ubuntu 14.04, I guess mint inherited this from Ubuntu.

[vinnywright]

sounds strange ,,,,,,,it should not accept anywhere if it is not accepted somewhere,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,for a test open a konsole and do

sudo apt-get update

,,,,dose it get accepted?
what did it say?

VINNY

[mbohets]

same thing happens

In konsole and yakuake iget this
marc@bgc:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for marc:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for marc:

The password is not accepted either when opening a gui application that needs root privileges (synaptic package mgr)


When I open a console via ctrl-alt-F1 and login, it works normal, my password is accepted.

[vinnywright]

The password is not accepted either when opening a gui application that needs root privileges (synaptic package mgr)


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oopsy ,,,did you do this ,,,,,,open a GUI app with sudo

VINNY

[mbohets]

There seems to be something wrong with typing special characters in the passwd field of a gui application, or in konsole.
when I type my password in konsole (in clear text) the special characters don't show, when I type the same special characters in kate or here for example this à it shows up.

IMO nothing wrong with my passwd, but something seems to be wrong with the acceptance of special characters in some passwd input fields
When I start the computer, my login/passwd are accepted, my login/passwd is also accepted in the ctrl-alt-F1 text console, but it is not accepted in passwd input fields when I am in kde.

[mbohets]

I opened synaptic package mgr.
Before starting it pops up a passwd box, when I type in my passwd it says wrong passwd also

[vinnywright]

I opened synaptic package mgr.
Before starting it pops up a passwd box, when I type in my passwd it says wrong passwd also

you will mess up the permissions in your /home if you run GUI apps with sudo ,,,,,,,you must use kdesudo to open a GUI app with root privilege in Kubuntu .

run this and lets see if root has taken over any of your ~/ files

find /home -type f -uid 0 -print

and what special characters,,,,stuff like !@#$%^&*()_+ ?

VINNY

[mbohets]

No you misunderstood, I did not open synaptic with sudo, I opened it via the normal kde application launcher, not with sudo on the command line.
When you do this it pops up an inputbox to ask for the passwd.

I have an azerty Belgian keyboard layout, and the top key row contains following characters &é"'(§è!çà) when typing the same keys with caps lock on this shows up 121234567890°
When I type all these characters in a console only &"'(!) show up and with caps 1234567890, so a number of special characters are missing.

Here is a screenshot of the Belgian keyboard layout, so not all special characters are showing when I type them in a konsole.

[mbohets]

No you misunderstood, I did not open synaptic with sudo, I opened it via the normal kde application launcher, not with sudo on the command line.
When you do this it pops up an inputbox to ask for the passwd.

I have an azerty Belgian keyboard layout, and the top key row contains following characters &é"'(§è!çà) when typing the same keys with caps lock on this shows up 121234567890°
When I type all these characters in a console only &"'(!) show up and with caps 1234567890, so a number of special characters are missing.

Here is a screenshot of the Belgian keyboard layout, so not all special characters are showing when I type them in a konsole.

[vinnywright]

AAAaaaa we may be getting above my pay grade hear ,,,,,,,, do you have all the language and localization files for your layout installed , and did you select that as your keybord layout at install ??

VINNY

[mbohets]

Yes, I selected this keyboard layout on the live usb before installing Kubuntu and also selected it during the install process to make sure I got the keyboard layout correct.
After installation, I got a notification that not all language components were installed, and I clicked on install them before doing anything else.

I am beginning to thing I hit on a bug and I should notify it via launchpad to get it fixed.

[mbohets]

The problem misteriously went away I don't know why though.
Today, I was about to report this as a bug in launchpad, and typed in the top row on the keyboard in yakuake again to copy it in my bug report,
and to my surprise, all characters were there.

I don't know why though because I did not do anything related to locales.
The only thing I did was install some extra video editing software.
The only thing I can think of is that it must have triggered the installation of some left over language or locale sw.
but I don't know why, after my last post, I did several reboots, and now suddenly it seems to be ok.

Linux works in misterious ways