[ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

[Gareth France]

Then why does it not work when EVERY file is transplanted from a working
profile?

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com
> wrote:

> If there is a broken user account, it definitely is a config file issue
> with one of the hidden files in that user's directory. It's not a global
> config issue though.
>
> Neil.
>
> P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone.
>
> On May 3, 2012 11:33 PM, "Gareth France" <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/05/12 13:35, Barry Drake wrote:
> >>
> >> > The time I've been spending on the Ubuntu answers team has shown me
> >> > that all kinds of nasties are occurring after an upgrade.  In
> >> > nearly every case, a clean install has been the best answer.
> >>
> >> I find this response very frustrating. It's not only inaccurate but it
> >> means we'll never get to the bottom of the problem, so can never find
> >> out how to fix it.
> >>
> >> If everyone just re-installed the OS whenever the wind changed
> >> direction we'd end up with a significantly worse OS as a result. When
> >> everyone keeps telling everyone else to reinstall, we end up with the
> >> state that Windows is in. Everyone thinks that's the solution, and it
> >> isn't, by some margin.
> >>
> > Thank you for that Alan, that's exactly why I'm persisting. I'm building
> a knowledgebase to allow me to fix such issues for my customers as
> efficiently as possible.
> >
> > Here's an interesting one. I've logged in as a guest and been able to
> create a new account. I have renamed my home folder and used the new
> account to copy the contents of it's home folder into a new home folder for
> the old account. It still doesn't work so I now have one working admin
> account and the original still broken one which doesn't appear to be a
> config file issue.
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> >
>
>
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