Couldn't open wallet: invalid password.

[dchmelik]

Every time it says "Couldn't open wallet: invalid password" I enter my password, and it's valid. When such fields say something (password, personal/contact information, username, etc.) is 'invalid' before even started/finished entering, it's possibly nasty; alarms/confuses some/lesser users: best wait until entered it and only give any error message afterwards. Apparently there's a trend (all over World Wide Web) to analyse text boxes before anything is started/finished entering, and only disappear to tell user when they get it right, which is a bad (and lazy) practice, rather than not saying anything unless they get it wrong.

[dchmelik]

It's not an inquiry rather than comment on apparent new poor (but increasingly common) computer programming practice.

[selsta]

This sounds like a bug, we do not "analyze" the entry before pressing enter and it should not say "invalid" beforehand.

[dchmelik]

This sounds like a bug, we do not "analyze" the entry before pressing enter and it should not say "invalid" beforehand.

Good. Is there a way I should get a log?

[selsta]

Which operating system are you using? How did you install monero-gui? Are you using a hardware wallet?

[dchmelik]

Slackware 15 GNU/Linux (current 64-bit n86) always from official monero-gui GitHub's stable tag which currently points to monero-gui-linux-x64-v0.18.3.4.tar.bz2. I decompress it into a directory/folder and run (the following way with my wrapper script). I have no hardware wallet. First time monero-gui maybe installed in KDE & XFCE 'other' menu (which that XFCE menu disappeared or I'd use that entry sometimes).

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/lib64/monero-gui
exec /usr/local/lib64/monero-gui/monero-wallet-gui "$@"

[selsta]

Can you try to start monero-wallet-gui from the command line and say how often it says

2025-02-19 18:05:20.153	E !r. THROW EXCEPTION: error::invalid_password
2025-02-19 18:05:20.154	E Error opening wallet: invalid password
2025-02-19 18:05:20.157	E Error opening wallet with password:  invalid password

in the logs? Does it match with the amount of characters your password has?