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@Gizmo: Here's what happened to me a while ago: I renamed it and the problem went away. Is your keyring directory empty? I'll bet it is.

Chris, what are the physical within-the-bezel dimensions for 3840x2160? Is that a 21:9 ratio? I've been looking at a 2560x1080 for this tiling WM. Might have to re-think my desk space, though, for the monster you're talking about.

If you pull down "help / about", you'll see it is named 'Nemo'. It's your GUI file manager. It works exactly the same as your Windows file manager did. When you type Alt+F2 in many distros, the resulting dialog box is a program launcher; you type the name of the program [firefox, xchat...

However, the box in the pictures runs Xfce, and it's pretty much Gnome-free, so I don't have those options possible without a lot of packages I don't need otherwise.

George: Alt+F2 should bring up a dialog box, type nemo Check for the directories in the filemanager 'Nemo' that comes up. Also, if one or both of them exist, please look to see if the directories are empty. Then, please check if you have a 'Passwords/Login Manager' or something to that in...

Daniel, you have to tell George how to take screenshots, methinks. I know you're good at that :)

George, I'm not sure what file manager you have in Mint; it might be nautilus or nemo. See if one of those is in your programs menu, and use that if you are more comfortable. Or, can you take screenshots of the output, if you're not sure how to copy/paste? We would feel a whole lot better :)...

lolz, beat me to it.

George, the result you are giving us is a bit suspect. don't forget the tilde symbols, and the '2' after 'gnome'. Check by using your filemanager if you aren't comfortable on the command line. It's very important that you are sure these directories exist/don't exist. ls ~/.gnome2/keyrings/...

Your system might not ask for a password because you selected 'remember for this session' or something to that effect. If a user doesn't make that selection, the pw will be requested every time. In this case, we can eliminate that by simply deleting the keyring. There's no danger in that...

He's getting selection boxes from apps asking him for a keyring password. This happened to me before in Gentoo, and the solution was to delete the gnome-keyring files. I'll bet your seahorse doesn't ask for a password because you have set it that way, intentionally or not. I'll also bet that...

Just hang in there, if he has keyring files we just delete/rename them. It's unnecessary to have them as the sole user, anyhow. Then we reboot him and it should be gone. I think you'll find the stuff we need in seahorse: view menu/by keyring but I don't have it installed, so I'm not 100% sure.

Be careful; we're not talking about his login password here, Brian. What you posted is related to that. We have to know if he has set a keyring password, and that is a completely different thing.

George can't do anything in /etc/passwd if he's not root. Anyhow, that isn't the right solution. I need to know if he has those directories I asked for above. After I know, I'm pretty sure I know what to do. But you've answered something; seahorse does exist on his box. That might be useful.

This is all related to a password to unlock the gnome keyring, which isn't really necessary if you're the sole user. Somehow, it appears that you've inadvertently set it. Don't worry, we'll make the problem go away. @booman: is there some kind of a proprietary Mint frontend for gnupg? The...

George, I'd still like to know what you were trying to run with 'sudo'. Is it a secret? Next, please show us the output of this: ls ~/.gnome2/keyrings/ or, look at the contents of ~/.gnome2 in your file manager, and tell me if there is a directory called 'keyrings' also: ls...

I think that is SOP in all Debian-type distros. Maybe one of the boys running Mint can check? Bedtime for me, I'll check back in the morning.

I'm thinking a keyring problem, maybe a master pw has been set on top of the regular one.

Cloasters's sudo problem moved to Crashed Forum: https://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/no-login-possible-after-sudo-in-mint.1712/

Gotta find the problem first. He knows it worked before, and I have never seen a password mysteriously become unusable. He's apparently in the sudo group, and I expect the su command to fail because there is no wheel group. He can't create an account with admin powers unless he's root, and...