System not accessible after installation of Kubuntu. SOLVED!

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Karl and Ged.

Below you can see the set of ideas by means of which I managed to solve 
the problem. Thank you very much!

Respectfully Yours,

Bas.


>
>> 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'.
>   

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