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<div class="PlainText">On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 22:03, Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
<div>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 09:10:42AM +0000, Gregory Gamble wrote:</div>
<div>> > Dear list,</div>
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<div>> > I wonder if you have advice on what to check out.</div>
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<div>> > On my "work" computer, I recently did the upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04</div>
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<div>> > and now have the curious situation of not being able to login at the</div>
<div>> > desktop,</div>
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<div>> > but I'm able to remote login from home.</div>
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<div>> > So far the IT guy has not been able to locate the problem.</div>
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<div>> > Have you some ideas on where to look and what info. I should provide</div>
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<div>> > ... might the GRUB file have been over written?</div>
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<div>> > If so, will a sudo command fix it?</div>
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<div>> If you really can log in from home then the computer is running, grub</div>
<div>> must have worked.</div>
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<div>Thanks for that. I was clutching at straws at what might be different</div>
<div>logging remotely vs at the terminal.</div>
<div>So a GRUB over-writing is not the problem.</div>
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<div>> When you say you can't log in at the desktop what do you mean, no</div>
<div>> login screen, incorrect password, or what?</div>
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<div>On the desktop it shows my name as a user.</div>
<div>Essentially, it has accepted previouslu my ID (a 8-didit no.)</div>
<div>... and shows my name: Greory Gamble</div>
<div>Clicking on that it prompts for my password</div>
<div>... if I put in the wrong password, I get the usual diagnostic: wrong password</div>
<div>... if I put in the right password, it just cycles back,</div>
to the password prompt.<br>
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<div class="PlainText">... For good measure, the innovation with 20.04 is that you can select
<div> a screen keyboard. So I did that, and 'keyed' in the password,</div>
<div> by pointing and clicking with the mouse, with the same result.</div>
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<div>So I assume from that, that my correct password has been recognised,</div>
<div>but for whatever reason it can't get past the login screen.</div>
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<div>> Incorrect password is often down to a wrongly mapped keyboard. Try</div>
<div>> entering a user name and see if all the characters used in your</div>
<div>> password appear correctly.</div>
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<div>Yes, I have had a keyboard in the past that had a key that didn't work.</div>
<div>But I think the above shows that a wrongly mapped keyboard is not the problem.</div>
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<div>When I remote login, I do:</div>
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<div>ssh <ID No>@<IP address></div>
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<div>... if that helps.</div>
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<div>I don't really get what is so different about desktop login vs a remote login.</div>
<div>If there's a problem, it's usually the other way round, because the</div>
<div>network is too strict.</div>
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<div>I may try a 20.10 upgrade <br>
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<div>...is it easy to reverse to 20.04.02 if one does that?</div>
<div>Everything else seems to work fine, when I remote login.<br>
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<div>What other things can I do after logging in remotely,</div>
<div>that might give you helpful info. for the desktop login?</div>
<div>I'll next be able to try a desktop login in a little more than 6 hours,</div>
<div>if there is a change that I can initiate from a remote login.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
Greg Gamble<br>
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