emergency - lost identity

[Arthur Dyck]

I'll give that a try.

Thanks.

On Saturday 17 March 2007 21:05, Larry Hartman wrote:
> Reloading Kubuntu seems a bit overkill, have you tried restarting in
> recovery mode?  ...logs in automatically as root.  At the prompt you can
> add your previous username and assign it to appropriate groups,
> specifically admin. Restart back in normal mode and test settings.
>
> Someone please correct me if I am wrong or misunderstood the issue.  Hate
> to see a reload if it could be avoided....lots of man-hours lost.
>
> Larry
>
> On Saturday 17 March 2007 09:59:07 pm Arthur Dyck wrote:
> > I seem to have lost my user identity and password and su access.  Is
> > there any way of restoring these?  I am using Kubuntu Dapper.
> >
> > When I try to go into Users and Groups go into Administrator Mode, I get
> > "Su returned with an error"
> >
> > The diagnostics is:
> >
> > Possible reasons:
> >
> > An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned 
> > control module.
> >
> > You have old third party modules lying around .
> >
> > Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in
> > the error message.  If this fails, consider contacting  your distributor
> > or packager."
> >
> > If need be, can I reinstall Kubuntu while leaving my data files intact? 
> > I am trying to back them up but K3b has frozen and I can't even get my CD
> > drive to open.
> >
> > Arthur