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I installed Ubuntu for the first time a few days ago and it all went smoothly. However in the terminal, there always is one letter missing from my username. I checked in my settings but there it shows my correct name.

whoami returns mbra and echo $HOME returns mbra as well.

I know its not a major issue but it would feel a lot better if I was able to fix this. In the following image, it's supposed to read umbra twice:

It's supposed to read umbra twice

Lorenz Keel
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  • Is the letter missing in your username, or only in the shell prompt? please add the output of id -un – steeldriver Oct 20 '21 at 14:59
  • @steeldriver the output is mbra, but in the settings my name is fully displayed. – Umbra Oct 20 '21 at 15:04
  • @user68186 i did that, both return mbra, how do i fix that? – Umbra Oct 20 '21 at 15:09
  • Note, if you follow the answer with the highest votes, Press Ctrl+Alt+F3 instead of Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to the TTY. Alternately use recovery mode. – user68186 Oct 20 '21 at 16:25
  • @user68186 No, it doesnt help, when i try the usermod it just returns "user mbra is currently used by process 1571", so no luck there. – Umbra Oct 20 '21 at 20:34
  • That probably means you are still logged in as mbra. You have to log out and either login as root in the TTY, or restart the computer in the recovery mode and use the commands. – user68186 Oct 20 '21 at 20:39
  • See Accessing Recovery Mode and select the option for "Drop to root shell prompt". See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode for more details. – user68186 Oct 20 '21 at 20:51

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