password problem

[David Curtis]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:12 PM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Eugene, I will be tackling the problem tomorrow and I will let you
> know the outcome. I really appreciate the help,   Ray
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Eugene Cormier <eugene.cormier at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Ray ....disregard my last email....I just realized those instructions
>> won't work unless you have the root password for the sudo
>> command.....the only way you're going to be able to reset the root
>> password is to chroot and fix it or to reinstall ....what follows is the
>> chroot instructions:
>>
>> 1) boot from the ubuntu live cd, choose "try Ubuntu"
>> 2) open a terminal and run the following (for the second command you
>> MUST replace /dev/sda1 with the name of your root partition....might be
>> sda1, sda2 sda3....whatever you choose for your root partition when you
>> installed ubuntu):
>>
>> mkdir temp
>> mount /dev/sda1 ./temp
>> chroot ./temp
>> sudo passwd root
>>
>> After you enter the new password (twice) reboot and things should work
>> again
>>
>> Of course there is one other possibility which is, did you by chance
>> remove your user from any groups recently....don't ever remove your user
>> from the "wheel" group as that would stop you from being able to gain
>> administration privileges from your user account (you can check this in
>> System - Administration - Users and Groups)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Eugene
>>
>> On 01/08/11 13:58, raymond house wrote:
>> > Hi Victor, yes I log on ok, it's just when I try to use synaptic or
>> > download software that it does not work.  Ray
>>
>>
Just a thought here, It might be that the keyboard is changing layout
between applications. Do you have more than one layout? I have U.S. and Can
French selections for months now and still haven't figured out how Gnome
picks which one to use, it almost seems random to me and I always end up
typing "é" in terminals instead of "/".

Dave
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