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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

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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](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1167741/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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