Typos might be fairly embarrassing, however within the case of a current Chromebook bug, they’ll additionally lock you out of your laptop computer. The main Chrome OS bug is in model 91.0.4472.165, and there’s already one other construct rolling out to assist repair the difficulty.

According to Android Police, the issue began with a single-character typo inside the vault that homes the encryption keys. Via Reddit, Google forgot so as to add an ampersand to a conditional assertion, which prevented Chrome OS from decrypting your login info to get previous the lock display. Even for those who had been coming into the precise password, there was no approach for Google to confirm it.

The repair is in model 91.0.4472.167, although it would take a little bit of time earlier than it rolls out to all affected customers. Google gives some instructions on what to do in case your system will get bit by the bug:

A brand new model which is able to repair the difficulty might be out there on July twenty first, however within the meantime these are the choices in case you are affected:

1. Once the brand new 91 replace is offered on Wednesday, customers will get the brand new model through auto-update or they’ll use visitor mode to set off the OS replace.
2. Powerwash the machine (native information might be cleared).
3. Rollback the Chrome OS machine to a earlier model through USB (native information might be cleared).

Once the up to date model is offered you’ll need to do one of many following steps:

– Leave the Chromebook machine on the login display to obtain the replace through auto-update.
– Update the machine manually after logging into Guest Mode We apologise for the inconvenience.

The choice to powerwash your Chrome OS machine will wipe all native information and make it easier to begin from scratch. But regardless of the working system’s hooks to the cloud, it may be an inconvenient alternative for those who don’t have a backup for these domestically saved recordsdata. It additionally wipes any Linux apps you had arrange.

This form of bug isn’t a superb search for Chrome OS, a cloud-based working system that prides itself on being simple to make use of. This is the second botched replace pushed by means of within the final month, following an replace that brought on critical CPU throttling in some Chromebooks. Google resolved the difficulty inside a couple of days, however think about if faculty had been in session, and this bug had locked out college students and lecturers from accessing their on-line lecture rooms.

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Remember that Chrome OS mechanically downloads its updates upon reboot. If you haven’t but up to date to the model that’s stricken, keep away from it till the repair has totally rolled out.