Re: Not accepting password only guest working
It happened to me last night. I had made a change in partitions structure to allow using many distros with one partition for each home directory and it causes a permission problem when i created new partitions as root. The ownner of my home was root. My solution was: login in terminal with ctr +alt + F2 fredd password change the owner of user directory with sudo chown -R fredd.fredd /home/fredd My only doubt is if some app or process that use that directory needs to be owner of its config files... Here, everything worked out after that... But, if its your case, you can try first a not recursive command sudo chown fredd.fredd /home/fredd Regards, Fredd Oliveiras (Linux apprentice) - Your message "Hi folks. I'm running Gnome 3.6 usually, and for some reason instead of logging in automatically, I get the login prompt, and it's not accepting my password, so I can only login as guest. What I don't understand, and it's driving me crazy, is that if I go CTRL ALT F2, I can login with no problem at all, so I've not changed my password or anything. Any help appreciated; thanking you in advance." -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Not accepting password only guest working
On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 09:17 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote: > > On Dec 24, 2012 9:08 AM, "Alex Armani" > wrote: > > > > Hi folks. I'm running Gnome 3.6 usually, and for some reason instead > of logging in automatically, I get the login prompt, and it's not > accepting my password, so I can only login as guest. What I don't > understand, and it's driving me crazy, is that if I go CTRL ALT F2, I > can login with no problem at all, so I've not changed my password or > anything. Any help appreciated; thanking you in advance. > > > > Its likely just seeming like you are not able to login. Its probably > something in your ~/.config configuration causing x to crash or not > load and dump you back out at the login. You can try removing or > renaming things randomly til you find it.. I would rename the gnome > specific configs or just move them out of your /home directory > temporarily to test... cheers! I suspect you can chroot a foreign Linux by a live CD and change passwords, however, it's very likely, that the keyboard layout for the login manager is an en_us layout, while you expect another keymap. So characters might be different, instead of a "z" you might have to type a "y" etc., regarding to "qwerty" vs "qwertz" etc.. That's an issue I very often experienced. Often Linux that try to automate in an insane way, fail very often. Unfortunately Ubuntu is one of those distros. It might be that the keymap, screen resolution, monitor frequencies are ok for the desktop environment session, but before you start the session, it could be completely wrong. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Not accepting password only guest working
I had a similar problem long ago, so I don't remember the fix exactly, but it had to do with my gnome user accidentally losing some of the groups. So when logged in "behind the scenes" as root I recreated my user in comand line and it fixed the login problem. So maybe this would help. Good luck and merry holiday! Alf On 24. des. 2012 15:17, Mike Holstein wrote: On Dec 24, 2012 9:08 AM, "Alex Armani" wrote: Hi folks. I'm running Gnome 3.6 usually, and for some reason instead of logging in automatically, I get the login prompt, and it's not accepting my password, so I can only login as guest. What I don't understand, and it's driving me crazy, is that if I go CTRL ALT F2, I can login with no problem at all, so I've not changed my password or anything. Any help appreciated; thanking you in advance. Its likely just seeming like you are not able to login. Its probably something in your ~/.config configuration causing x to crash or not load and dump you back out at the login. You can try removing or renaming things randomly til you find it.. I would rename the gnome specific configs or just move them out of your /home directory temporarily to test... cheers! From: Alex & Amy.xx -- Alex Armani - IT Consultant / Digital Musician +44 775 459 5449 - MYspace.com/Alex.Armani www.facebook.com/Alex.Armani.01.UK -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Not accepting password only guest working
On Dec 24, 2012 9:08 AM, "Alex Armani" wrote: > > Hi folks. I'm running Gnome 3.6 usually, and for some reason instead of logging in automatically, I get the login prompt, and it's not accepting my password, so I can only login as guest. What I don't understand, and it's driving me crazy, is that if I go CTRL ALT F2, I can login with no problem at all, so I've not changed my password or anything. Any help appreciated; thanking you in advance. > Its likely just seeming like you are not able to login. Its probably something in your ~/.config configuration causing x to crash or not load and dump you back out at the login. You can try removing or renaming things randomly til you find it.. I would rename the gnome specific configs or just move them out of your /home directory temporarily to test... cheers! > From: Alex & Amy.xx > -- > Alex Armani - IT Consultant / Digital Musician > +44 775 459 5449 - MYspace.com/Alex.Armani > www.facebook.com/Alex.Armani.01.UK > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Not accepting password only guest working
Hi folks. I'm running Gnome 3.6 usually, and for some reason instead of logging in automatically, I get the login prompt, and it's not accepting my password, so I can only login as guest. What I don't understand, and it's driving me crazy, is that if I go CTRL ALT F2, I can login with no problem at all, so I've not changed my password or anything. Any help appreciated; thanking you in advance. From: Alex & Amy.xx -- Alex Armani - IT Consultant / Digital Musician +44 775 459 5449 - MYspace.com/Alex.Armani www.facebook.com/Alex.Armani.01.UK -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
