I cannot login in after a fresh install, don't know root password, and it never asked me to create a user
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 3 10:59:43 UTC 2005
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:21:08AM -0700, James wrote:
> Okay, I installed Ubuntu, while working on two PCs, so once the main
> install was going, I went to the other one, I get back to it, and it has
> rebooted, is completely installed and sitting at a username login prompt
> to go into Gnome it looks like. but it never asked me for a username,
> and there is absolutely, no information on what the root defaul password
> is.
What version of Ubuntu did you install? It should have asked you for a
username and password during installation; if it did not, something was
very badly and unusually broken.
Please use the recovery mode at the bootloader prompt to get a copy of
/var/log/installer/syslog to me.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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