see below.
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 19:12, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <
kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> see below.
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:46, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz
> > wrote:
>
>> [Please!, don't top post in this mailing list.]
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:36:38AM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
>> wrote:
>> > Hola!
>> >
>> > I- m starting to get desperate! I found lots of instructions on the
>> > web about how to solve this, but none of them works. Example, I
>> > founmd this
>> >
>> > In grub press e ton edit options
>> > add to init options
>> >
>> > init=/bin/sh
>> > RET
>> > press b to boot
>> > Then mount -o remount,rw /
>> > passwd kjetil
>> > (repeating new password twice)
>> > exec init
>>
>> Instead of changing your password like that, what I'd do is after "mount
>> -o remount,rw" I'd "vim /etc/passwd" and take out the x for root:
>>
>> i.e before:
>> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>>
>> after
>> root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>>
>> save it, (make sure it saved ok.) then reboot.
>>
>> You should now be able to login as root without needing a password
>> and investigate from there.
>>
>> Does that work?
>>
>>
> Thanks. So far not .
>
> Several problems:
>
> ¿Whats the point with the line init=/bin/sh ?
>
> It does not seem to work, I am dropped into bash
>
> ¿shoud I remove the x in /etcv/passwd or in /etc/shadow or in both?
>
> so far I tried in /etc/passwd
> and it does not work.
>
This is _very_ strange. When I start maintenance mode, I am allowed
to change the password. While in the shell, without running X, I can the do
login kjetil
giving my passwd, and can enter the account.
I can do sudo startx
wh8ich now starts X (for me, xfce), but it is started as root! which is not
nwhat I want, I need to be running xfce as "kjetil.
Then logging out, restarting, trying to logging on as usual --- agaiun, do
not work!
???
Kjetil
>
> Kjetil
>
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>> -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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> human face - forever."
>
> George Orwell (1984)
>
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