<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> NoOp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:g75kir$hq3$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 08/03/2008 08:49 AM, Jerry Alber wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">NoOp wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 08/02/2008 08:07 PM, NoOp wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Quick question: how did you check /etc/shadow without being able to login and entering a password? Even in the tty you'd need to login and enter a UID & password. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">One other questiuon/point: you mentioned <quote> I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04.1 Alternate and burned the image. MD5sums all checked out as did the CD. I installed it which was in the graphics mode - fine with me. </quote> there is no "graphics" mode on the Alternate CD - only: Normal, OEM install, Install a command-line system, Install an LTSP server. The normal and OEM modes do use very limited graphic (DOS style) screens, but nothing like a liveCD install. Can you clarify what you mean by "graphics mode"? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">NoOp, Sorry about the "graphics" bit. I woke up in the middle of the night thinking that I said graphics when I meant to say text. It was in the text mode not the graphics mode that I entered all of my information. I got to /etc/shadow by mounting the partition from Fedora 8 which is working. I also looked at lspci and could see that Ubuntu did see the graphics card. I will try a clean install doing what you suggested with F6. Jerry </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That still doesn't sound right. It still sounds as if there is a keyboard issue somewhere that is not working - hence you always ending back up with a login screen. I don't recall, is your keyboard USB or PS/2? If it is a keyboard issue, I recently had a problem with a dell usb keyboard when doing an install. The thing just wasn't taking the UID/PW properly. I finally switched the BIOS settings to legacy USB support, moved the keyboard to a back USB port and then it worked. You might try to enable legacy USB Keyboard in your CMOS settings and see if that works (or vs vs). Other alternatives are to unplug the keyboard, wait a few seconds and plug it back in. I recall that there are a few issues regarding this but don't have them handy at the moment. </pre> </blockquote> NoOp, I tried replacing the keyboard, using the wireless keyboard but nothing worked. I tried doing an install from the "official" CD from Canonical using Safe Graphic Mode and clicking on the install folder on the screen, but the install did not include Grub. So, I went back to the Alternate CD and did an install from there (all of the installs are clean, meaning that I re-format the partition) and it seemed to go fine. I entered a username and a password and when I rebooted the system and entered the username and password it looked as if it were going to do something. It did - it went back to the loginin screen with no errors. The next time, I entered a wrong password just to see what it would do, and I got an error right away. When mounting the partition from Fedora 8, is there someplace that I can check to see what it is doing, or rather, not doing with the username, password? If I check /var/log what log/s should I look at and what should I be looking for? I also have a thread in Launchpad, and it seems as though I am not the only person having this problem. So far, there were no solutions and some people have become so disgusted that they have given up. Let me know if you can think of what I should be looking for in order to try and solve this "latest" problem. Thanks, Jerry </body> </html>