<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Kyle Vanditmars wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1168196212.5225.1.camel@sonoramic" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> I get root@XyzWeek:/# Login timed out after 60 seconds.. Ubuntu 6.1 XyzWeek ttyl then the whole cycle all over again. XyzWeek login: etc. <blockquote cite="mid1168196212.5225.1.camel@sonoramic" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 21:19 -0800, Don and/or Mila Trombley wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">----- Original Message ----- From: "Myles A. Braithwaite" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:myles@monkeyinyoursoul.com"><myles@monkeyinyoursoul.com></a> To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com"><ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com></a> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:57 PM Subject: Re: HELP! </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">----- Don and/or Mila Trombley <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:donmila@shaw.ca"><donmila@shaw.ca></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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? -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> -- Myles A. Braithwaite <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://claimid.com/myles">http://claimid.com/myles</a> -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>