Daft newbie can not get past login page

[zoe blackmore]

My friend who originally installed ubuntu (with kde) on my system
spent a day on my system yesterday...he is a very experienced debian
user and hopefully he will give me a useful report I can pass on to
people. He has been unable to resolve the problem. Luckily for my
newbie-shame level it was not anything to do caps and number locks.
The password was correct, we know this because because the password
manager tells us when ever I provided a wrong password. Something was
def wrong with my system..5.04 worked ok for a month, my upgrade to
5.10 went ok (though the were some language (en) error messages...but
everything worked ok for about a week)...I have no idea what I did to
break the system. I better not give any half information...more later

Anyways I have a brand much bigger new Ubuntu/kubuntu partion to set
up. Must rush to work as I am late.

zoe

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> Sounds like your password is different now.  You are aware that Cap
> letters are different from lowercase in Linux?  Perhaps you used a
> Capital when you supplied your original password.
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