How to login in Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD ?

[Lawrence Tsang]

Hi Johnneylee Rollins, Karl F. Larsen, steve reilly and All,

     Thanks for the suggestions.

     In fact, I have used the "ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso" file downloaded
from the Ubuntu website and burned it to a CD. However, the same error
persists when I boot the burned CD in a CDrom and when I boot the ".iso"
file as a CDrom image in a VMware workstation 7 Virtual Machine. So I think
there are some errors in the original "ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso" file.

     After repeatedly booting the burned CD and the ".iso" file, I describe
the error as follows :

1. when just power on the computer / VM with the burned CD / ".iso" image, I
select "English" language.

2. I choose the "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer" option to
boot.

3. when just begin booting and the Ubuntu logo is just being seen, I press
the "ESC" key to show the booting messages.

4. I find the following error in the booting messages :

shadow passwords are now on
dpkg-query : read error in '/usr/lib/dpkg/triggers//File' : Input/output
error
chpasswd : invalid option -- 'e'
Usage : ..........(some messages I think to show the use of chpasswd)
..........
install : invalid user 'ubuntu'
install : invalid user 'ubuntu'
.........(the following booting messages seem have no error)

     Then after the Ubuntu 9.10 has booted up, I find "authentication
failure"  when try to login as "ubuntu" with blank password.

     Perhaps there were some transmission errors when I downloaded the
original "ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso" file. But it seems that I had
downloaded this file twice.

     Does anyone have the same experience as I have ? Any comment.

Regards
Lawrence





On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM, steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>wrote:

>  Lawrence Tsang wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >      I have just booted Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD in my computer. The booting
> > process seems ok and it finally goes to a Login screen. When I click the
> > login button, the system asks for a username and password.
> >
> >      Does anyone know what is the username and password for going into
> > Ubuntu 9.10 ?
> >
> >      Thanks for any comment.
> >
> > Regards
> > Lawrence
> >
> >
>
> this question pops up once in a while here, it is not the intended
> action to have the live cd ask for a username and password.  dont ask me
> why this works, it does, and i have no idea why...... burn the cd at a
> slower speed than what you did.  there was possibly a bad burn.  have
> had this problem on other distros live cd's and once with ubuntu as well
> and re burning slower has worked.
>
>
>
> steve
>
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