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Just wanted to try a Richard Stallman's favoured distro - ututo.
It's gentoo based and it's my first gentoo based distro.
The installer seemed quite unstable to me, and I guess I wasn't wrong.
It uses lilo by default, but I use grub to boot ubuntu on my first partition.
So I took the values from lilo.conf and placed them correctly in menu.lst
I booted it successfully, but when it comes to login promt, it says sth like failed to init gdm(gnome display manager) and shows me the command line.
No big deal...I enter the login ututo then the password "enter", as it is said in the instructions, but it refuses to log in, it tells me that no such user exists.
Neither can I log in by root, it is disabled by default.
Perhaps I haven't correctly moved the values from lilo.conf to menu.list ?
or maybe the problem lies in a file in wich I have to add the user account or perhaps enable root account ? where is that file and how should I modify it?
I have tried enough live CD's and distro's...I just wanted to try ututo(a distro favoured by Richard Stallman)
During installation, the installer told me that I will be able to log in using the login "ututo" and the password "enter", but it refuses after I "successfully" installed the system and rebooted it.
I suggested live CD only as a way to reset the password(s)...
"login: ututo" and "password: enter" seems like a very strange default to set up...??? Is it possible that it said simply to hit enter??--ie to have no password?
If you cannot log in, you still only have the two options that I listed.
Distribution: Arch Linux 2007.05 "Duke" (Kernel 2.6.21)
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In defense of my suggestion -
I understand that you may have never had problems with GRUB before. However, I have messed something similar up and couldn't log in. Granted I had a slightly different issue, but I figured a suggestion couldn't hurt much.
Sounds to me now that you should just hit enter to log in with no password. (although I have never seen that with a GDM or KDM as they don't normally take null passwords in my experience.)
In defense of my suggestion -
I understand that you may have never had problems with GRUB before. However, I have messed something similar up and couldn't log in. Granted I had a slightly different issue, but I figured a suggestion couldn't hurt much.
Sounds to me now that you should just hit enter to log in with no password. (although I have never seen that with a GDM or KDM as they don't normally take null passwords in my experience.)
The notion that grub or lilo was related to inability to log in was started by OP. Your suggestion about drive numbering was correct--assuming that his /boot partition was in fact on the 2nd drive.
But--none of this relevant to the inability to log in.....There is no way i can think of that grub or lilo configuration could affect how the system works once the kernel takes over.
I've tried typing the password and also using just enter...I never give up untill I try all the combinations.
But as far as I remember, It was said in the instructions not to just press enter, but to type the password "enter".
Anyway, I've erased the lizard (ututo) about 2 days ago, but I still want to know the file I have to modify in order to add a user account to the system. I don't need a live cd,altough I have about 2-3 of them to do this, because I have on the first partition another linux OS installed, so I can easily access anything that's on hdb5.
I've tried typing the password and also using just enter...I never give up untill I try all the combinations.
But as far as I remember, It was said in the instructions not to just press enter, but to type the password "enter".
Anyway, I've erased the lizard (ututo) about 2 days ago, but I still want to know the file I have to modify in order to add a user account to the system. I don't need a live cd,altough I have about 2-3 of them to do this, because I have on the first partition another linux OS installed, so I can easily access anything that's on hdb5.
Anyway, I've erased the lizard (ututo) about 2 days ago, but I still want to know the file I have to modify in order to add a user account to the system. I don't need a live cd,altough I have about 2-3 of them to do this, because I have on the first partition another linux OS installed, so I can easily access anything that's on hdb5.
You don't need to edit a file, and likely you shouldn't. From a livecd or another distro, mount the root fs at say, /mnt/ututo, 'chroot /mnt/ututo /bin/bash' ... then you are root on that system. Create a password for root if you don't have one: 'passwd root' and create a user, but read the man page for adduser first, since the details of this vary between distros.
Is it possible that 'ututo' is a special login for post-install configuration? Well, who knows? Change the password and find out: 'passwd ututo' ... then log in.
I know you wiped it, but since this seems to have been an experience motivated by healthy curiosity, why not give it another go? The worst that can happen is that you'll learn some more new stuff
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