error creating the child process for this terminal

[sam R]

  *None of the answers help me to solve the problem. Forgive me I'm new to
Ubuntu*




On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>
> > Tried that the other week, I was prompted for *root*'s password
> > which doesn't exist :(
> >
> > Siggy
> >
>
> Oh tricky,, you've accumulated all kinds of unusual customizations <g>
>
> In this case, however, to recover access to root terminal:
>
> Press ESC key during Grub boot to open Grub menu.
>
> Press E key to edit the default Linux entry
>
> Scroll down to the kernel= line, and press E key to edit.  append
> "init=/bin/bash" to the end of the kernel options.  Press B to boot.
>
> Once you are in the very plain terminal, with root access, you should be
> able to use /usr/bin/passwd root  to assign a new and known password for
> root account. (As an unrelated asside, why is passwd in /usr and not in
> /sbin?  I suppose since no one uses shared remote /usr anymore, the
> question is kind of moot)
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20090828/d20b8f4c/attachment.html>