Ubuntu 23.10 - a new password page during boot

Ubuntu 23.10, PC, Mate Desktop

23.10 has been working fine and I wanted to restore my VPN wiped out during the last update/upgrade and worked with the vendor to restore operation. That involved many commands run in Terminal.

After rebooting the final time during that process, I found that Ubuntu would boot to a new password page. I'd enter my password correctly, it would loop right back to that page, I'd enter it again and then it would proceed like normal to the regular password page. Enter that and it would open on the desktop.

I found if I walked away without entering those first two passwords, it would auto proceed to the regular password page. Enter the password, and it goes to the desktop.

Anyone know if it was a command during the 'fix' of the VPN that might have caused this? I don't recall any command related to a KEY or password. Or could it be something else? Or better yet, how to eliminate the redundancy? Booting is already too slow.

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dpkg --get-selections | grep initramfsbusybox-initramfs               installinitramfs-tools                 installinitramfs-tools-bin             installinitramfs-tools-core                install

This cure by David Lindman link posted below cured the issue. Yes, I'd set up OpenVPN during the process of getting the VPN to work:

sudo nano /etc/default/openvpn

And uncommented the line:

AUTOSTART="none"

Thanks for the help!