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)

  • Wildebeest@lemmy.mlOP
    11·
    4 months ago

    I did go into the BIOS earlier and it showed the correct time (just one hour off). Is this the clock that you are talking about or is there another clock that I should check? (sorry I don’t really know much about this stuff)

    • SpinachSaxophone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      4 months ago

      When you power the system down, unplug it from the wall for ~10 minutes, plug it back in, then power it back up, is the BIOS clock off by an hour again? If so, I’d follow the recommendation to replace the CMOS battery. If you look your motherboard up online, you should be able to find the location on the board and type of battery. It isn’t a complicated task, but it can seem difficult if you’ve never done it before.

      • baru@lemmy.world
        131·
        4 months ago

        The clock likely is off by an hour because of local time vs UTC difference. Where the BIOS is set to UTC.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          9·
          4 months ago

          Linux generally stores the time in BIOS as UTC then adjusts to the local timezone on the fly. Windows just stores it as the local timezone, which can create interesting behavior when dualbooting sometimes

      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
        10·
        4 months ago

        Also hold down the power button for a few seconds after unplugging just to help drain out any residual power from capacitors.

        Also if it is a laptop or other battery-operated device you will want to disconnect the batter temporarily.

        • Wildebeest@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          4 months ago

          Removing batteries, right, this is still possible with laptops. Thanks, I didn’t think of that.