HELP!

[Kyle Vanditmars]

Try typing "init 3" or "init 5" without the quotes.  Init 3 is a text
login mode and init 5 is the normal graphical mode.

-Kyle

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 21:19 -0800, Don and/or Mila Trombley wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Myles A. Braithwaite" <myles at monkeyinyoursoul.com>
> To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: HELP!
> 
> 
> > It sounds like you are in the safe mode of the kernel. On boot select the 
> > normal kernel and it should show you the desktop.
> >
> >That may well be the problem, but the Booting of the system does not allow 
> >me into the first splash screen to select  the normal kernel.
>   I assume I am in BASH, and it saysType 'exit 'when finished.
> root @XyzWeek:"# exit
> exit
> 
> The system has reached a state where there are no jobs running. Ashell will 
> be spawned so that you may start such jobs that are necessary.
> 
> and the whole cycle starts all over again, each time I do as directed... I 
> tried rebooting, the same thing all over again.
> Now the screen says:
> > ----- Don and/or Mila Trombley <donmila at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >> I don't know what I did, when I went  and tried to see what BASH  was
> >>
> >> about, and not knowing what command closes BASH, closed down the
> >> computer,....and when
> >> I tried to reboot the following day, and for some time afterwards, The
> >>
> >> system would not allow me to get the desktop. Apparently,
> >> root@ XyzWeek:/# crops up. I typed in the " OEM "  and my password...
> >>
> >> Then I get Login Incorrect. . . I tried "oem" . . . after a number of
> >> tries
> >> comes the following: Login timed out after 60 seconds. Then Ubuntu
> >> 6.10
> >> XyzWeek ttyl ...How do I handle this, so I can continue?
> >>
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> >
> >
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> > Myles A. Braithwaite
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> >
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