Problems loging in

[Marcos Almeida Azevedo]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Bill <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I really need some advice on this one...
>
> 1. I have mint - Mate installed version = rebecca , the latest version and
> fully updated) installed.
> 2. During a electrical power outage, I turned on my computer (battery
> backup) but the router was not on battery backup, thus no network
> connection (I have a wired connection).
> 3. The computer booted up properly with a delay because on no network
> connection.  I expected this.
> I successfully got through grub and I got the logon screen.  So far, no
> problems.
> 4. When I  loged-on to any account, all I get is a black screen and the
> mouse cursor.  The mouse cursor responds to moving the mouse.
>
> The electricity is fully restored and I can access the internet but I
> can't get into any Mint account.My guess is that something is wrong with
> the X server.  Is there any solutions to this?  Maybe I can get to a
> command prompt to fix the problem, but how?
>
> I dual boot with Windows, Ubuntu - Mate, and Mint Mate.  Windows works
> fine so it is not a hardware problem.  Although I haven't tested Ubuntu -
> Mate but I'll bet that works, I'll check later. Since it affects ALL
> Mint-Mate accounts


You boot and was using Mint Mate when the power outage happened and not
Windows right?  So most probably a config file was corrupted


> (admin and regular users) it is something global and not unique to a
> particular account.
>
>
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