Help can't login!

[Bahn, Nathan]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
> sent from my HTC.
> On Sep 15, 2013 8:47 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Just rebooted my 13.04 laptop, and I cannot login, lightdm comes up, I
>> > enter
>> > my password, and end up back at the login screen!
>> > I can get in with another user account, but it does not have root
>> > access, so
>> > I can only view logs on syslog viewer, not all logs! As in not the
>> > lightdm
>> > log or the greater log, which I can see in the file broswer but not
>> > open!
>> > I have changed the passed of my account (after the trouble started) to
>> > see
>> > if it was authentication problem, but no change.
>> >
>> > Any ideas gratefully received.
>> >
>> > Pete Smout
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you know how to access the command line interface?
>
> Yes I can login to a shell using my name and passwd.....?



please try:
$ su -l XXX
where XXX =your login ID (please note "-l" is NOT the number one)
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