Unable to use Ubuntu 8.04 live CD

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Jerry Alber <jalber at kitcarson.net> wrote:

> NoOp wrote:
> > On 08/03/2008 08:49 AM, Jerry Alber wrote:
> >   
> >> NoOp wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On 08/02/2008 08:07 PM, NoOp wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Quick question: how did you check /etc/shadow
> without being able to
> >>>> login and entering a password? Even in the tty
> you'd need to login and
> >>>> enter a UID & password.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> One other questiuon/point: you mentioned
> >>> <quote>
> >>> I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04.1 Alternate and burned
> the image. MD5sums all
> >>> checked out as did the CD. I installed it which
> was in the graphics mode
> >>> - fine with me.
> >>> </quote>
> >>>
> >>> there is no "graphics" mode on the Alternate CD
> - only: Normal, OEM
> >>> install, Install a command-line system, Install
> an LTSP server. The
> >>> normal and OEM modes do use very limited graphic
> (DOS style) screens,
> >>> but nothing like a liveCD install. Can you
> clarify what you mean by
> >>> "graphics mode"?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> NoOp,
> >>
> >> Sorry about the "graphics" bit. I woke up in the
> middle of the night 
> >> thinking that I said graphics when I meant to say
> text. It was in the 
> >> text mode not the graphics mode that I entered
> all of my information.
> >>
> >> I got to /etc/shadow by mounting the partition
> from Fedora 8 which is 
> >> working. I also looked at lspci and could see
> that Ubuntu did see the 
> >> graphics card.
> >>
> >> I will try a clean install doing what you
> suggested with F6.
> >>
> >> Jerry
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > That still doesn't sound right. It still sounds as
> if there is a
> > keyboard issue somewhere that is not working -
> hence you always ending
> > back up with a login screen. I don't recall, is
> your keyboard USB or PS/2?
> >
> > If it is a keyboard issue, I recently had a
> problem with a dell usb
> > keyboard when doing an install. The thing just
> wasn't taking the UID/PW
> > properly. I finally switched the BIOS settings to
> legacy USB support,
> > moved the keyboard to a back USB port and then it
> worked.
> > You might try to enable legacy USB Keyboard in
> your CMOS settings and
> > see if that works (or vs vs). Other alternatives
> are to unplug the
> > keyboard, wait a few seconds and plug it back in.
> >   I recall that there are a few issues regarding
> this but don't have
> > them handy at the moment.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> NoOp,
> 
> I tried replacing the keyboard, using the wireless
> keyboard but nothing 
> worked. I tried doing an install from the "official"
> CD from Canonical 
> using Safe Graphic Mode and clicking on the install
> folder on the 
> screen, but the install did not include Grub.
> 
> So, I went back to the Alternate CD and did an
> install from there (all 
> of the installs are clean, meaning that I re-format
> the partition) and 
> it seemed to go fine. I entered a username and a
> password and when I 
> rebooted the system and entered the username and
> password it looked as 
> if it were going to do something. It did - it went
> back to the loginin 
> screen with no errors. The next time, I entered a
> wrong password just to 
> see what it would do, and I got an error right away.
> 
> When mounting the partition from Fedora 8, is there
> someplace that I can 
> check to see what it is doing, or rather, not doing
> with the username, 
> password? If I check /var/log what log/s should I
> look at and what 
> should I be looking for?
> 
> I also have a thread in Launchpad, and it seems as
> though I am not the 
> only person having this problem. So far, there were
> no solutions and 
> some people have become so disgusted that they have
> given up.
> 
> Let me know if you can think of what I should be
> looking for in order to 
> try and solve this "latest" problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>Hey Jerry,
I may have missed it and this is probably a dumb
suggestion but have you selected the kind of session
on the login screes before you hit enter after typing
in your ID and password. I've had some strange
behavior in this regard with KDE4.1 on Hardy x86-64. 
Certainly wont hurt to select your session type before
logging in.  When I've had this issue, there was
nothing checked in the session type menu(top menu in
case I've the name wrong).
HTH.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net