Help can't login!

[Pete Smout]

Mmmm interesting I will try that from my pc in a while, don't know why that
would work though but I'll try anything once!
Thanks

Pete

@google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
sent from my HTC.
On Sep 15, 2013 10:19 PM, "Gerhard Magnus" <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:

> I started having the same problem last night on the one of my boxes
> running 32-bit Ubuntu 13.04 -- it hasn't occurred on my 64-bit machines. I
> found a way around it that works for me. It may be the proverbial "waving a
> dead chicken," as I have no idea why it works, but you know linux: every
> little thing is an adventure!
>
> Using ssh, logon to the problem box from a remote one; then logoff. Then
> try logging on from the splash screen of the problem box. This has worked
> twice now. (It's as if connecting remotely wakes something up.)
>
> On 09/15/2013 02:01 PM, Pete Smout wrote:
>
>>
>> Infact to prove I'm not mad......
>> http://db.tt/uxAHoqCZ
>> @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
>> sent from my HTC.
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2013 9:10 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com
>> <mailto:nathan.bahn at gmail.com>**> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com
>>     <mailto: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 9:03 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com
>>         <mailto:nathan.bahn at gmail.com>**> wrote:
>>          >
>>          >
>>          >
>>          > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Pete Smout
>>         <smoutpete at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto:nathan.bahn at gmail.com>**> wrote:
>>          > >>
>>          > >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Pete Smout
>>         <smoutpete at gmail.com <mailto: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)
>>          > --
>>         Tried that asks for my sudo passwd then back to prompt no other
>>         output!
>>         Thanks for your help
>>
>>
>>
>>
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