Fwd: after downloading my ubuntu 5.10

[Steven Tucker]

David Whyte wrote:

>Graham sent this to me but I think it should have gone to the list.
>
>Sorry Graham, if you installed then I have no idea what has gone
>wrong,  It sounds like you possible did a dual boot or something, but
>this is way over my head!
>
>Sorry,
>Whytey
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Graham Paul Richards <gricha15 at bigpond.net.au>
>Date: Apr 24, 2006 5:01 PM
>Subject: Re: after downloading my ubuntu 5.10
>To: David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com>
>
>
>I used the ubuntu disc that was sent to me.Yes I did register a user name
>but that does not work.I even tried my email address.I did notice when I ran
>ubuntu memtest 86+ the following was detected"4294699.100000 IPv6 over IPv4
>tunnelingdriver (fail)" don't know what this means.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Whyte" <david.whyte at gmail.com>
>To: "Graham Paul Richards" <gricha15 at bigpond.net.au>
>Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:48 PM
>Subject: Re: after downloading my ubuntu 5.10
>
>
>On 4/24/06, Graham Paul Richards <gricha15 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>  
>
>>I get the front page,says user name,session, language,but nothing
>>happens.I
>>assume the download was successful,it seemed to go through OK.
>>kind regards
>>    
>>
>
>Graham,
>
>When you were installing ubuntu (assuming this is the install version)
>you would have entered details about a 'user', such as name, username
>and password.  Try using those.
>
>Cheers,
>Whytey
>
>  
>
It really sounds as though you just have the user name and/or the 
password wrong, even though you are absolutely certain you don't 
(happens to the best of us).  Just boot into single user mode, create a 
root user and password then reboot and log in with that. Then you can 
see who the user is, because that will be in the /home directory, and 
then use that name with the passwd command to issue a new password to 
that user. Reboot and log in as usual.

all the best

Tuxta