22.04 login problem

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 3 May 2022 at 15:31, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Problem two fold,
> first I had spent ages trying to work out why/how the pastword had changed? I
> reset it (AFAIK) from the recovery consol, duel boot 18.04 and a 21.10 live
> USB, so had given up for a while, until wiser heads gave me a direction (before
> doing something I could not recover)

OK. Seems like a separate and maybe unrelated issue?

> Second (and more anoying) the monitor (Samsung SM245B) that is on that box has
> developed a problem with the cold, it wont start,

Odd. Tried on a different PC? Tried with a different cable? If you
don't have a spare cable, just unplug the one you have and reverse its
direction: put the old computer end into the screen, and the old
screen end into the computer. This forces you to unkink and reconnect
both ends and may get around issues with corrosion, bad contacts, bent
pins, and so on.


>  so I was on another PC that
> has an SVGA out so can run on an older smaller Dell monitor

Um. This is not clear to me. A different computer, but you're
connecting over the network?

> If you can give a cmd that will give me these I can use next time, It's an
> nVidia card using the 340 driver before and after (AFAICT) with patch
>
> xorg-modulepath-fix

sudo apt install mesa-utils

then

glxinfo | less

... is what I use.

> that was disabled/removed by update but reapplied after to get a GUI back

> I don't think that I get a choice, no sign of the "cog wheel" in the logon box

Aha. That's a snag.

This may help:

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/07/change-default-display-manager-ubuntu-20-04/

or

https://www.simplified.guide/ubuntu/switch-to-gdm

> Why / How
> filefix finds "no suitable file system"

What is "filefix"?

> there is no sign of gnome-session-manager (sudo apt-cache policy
> gnome-session-m*) not installed nor a candidate

So you have something else, I would think.


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