System not accessible after installation of Kubuntu.

[Karl]

Karl wrote:
> Bas Roufs wrote:
>> What would you advise me to do next? Reinstalling Kubuntu? If so, how 
>> can I prevent the same password-username problem from coming back?
>> Or is there any other smart bypass to eliminate the problem without 
>> reinstalling everything?
> 
> When you boot your laptop select recovery mode in the grub menu.  This 
> will boot you into a text console as the root user (i.e. super user).
> 
> To check that you got the username right when you installed, enter the 
> command 'ls /home'.
> 
> To reset the password, enter the command 'passwd xx' where xx is your 
> username.  You will be prompted to enter a new password twice.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

P.S. To get into normal graphical mode, you can use the 'reboot' 
command, but it is faster to do '/sbin/init 2'.