<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz <<a href="mailto:thomas@s7.dion.ne.jp">thomas@s7.dion.ne.jp</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> What the h*** is this????? Thomas Blasejewicz さんは書きました: > Situation: > Did (again) a clean install of 10.04 using the entire disk for it. > Ran update: 102 MB -> reboot > Installed Ubuntu Tweak > made some minor adustments (while waiting very long for the update to finish), like add a keyboard layout, add, remove 1-2 applets. None of the other fancy stuff like "disable KMS" etc. After update was completed, I tried to install Thunderbird via the Ubuntu Software Center ... and ... BANG. There is it again, that nasty screen asking me for my password, but not accepting it. > Now I get a screen looking completely different from what I just have set up > AND I am asked for my name and password. > BUT my password is NOT accepted. > Neither under my name nor under "other" > So, I cannot even get into the system any more. > > What is this all about????? > Is there a way around it?? > Or do I have to do the whole (please choose your own profanity here) > thing again??? > > The welcome message displayed during the installation says: "Ubuntu is designed to be easy." Well, THAT is definitely not my experience! -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> T.B.-- I don't use Thunderbird; I use Gmail. --N.B. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a> & <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">http://www.openoffice.org</a> (Nathan Bahn)