markw wrote:
Gus Wirth wrote:
When in doubt, revert to the command line. Get rid of all GUI-ness and
look at your startup messages. And get root. Ubuntu defaults to not
having a root password and sudo was broken. I had to boot the system
to single user mode and create a root password so I could get in,
explore and fix things.
Not needed. As the inital account, just "sudo passwd root" to add a
password for root, then you can su to root.
You failed to read the entire post. This was broken, I could not use
sudo from the command line.
Gus
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