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Can you (please) give us a little more to work with
What distro, what login (local/remote), upper/lower case, what weird noise (sound of an espresso maker, now that would be weird...) what login options?
Keeping this thread on the scope...
Oh, and yes: welcome to the forum!
Thor
Last edited by ButterflyMelissa; 09-02-2011 at 01:18 PM.
Welcome to LQ
Login and pass are case sensitive.
Are you sure the keyboard layout is correct?
Are you logging in as user or as root?
Is this the GUI login?
Is this on your own system?
Press Control-Alt-F2 and you'll be given a log-in in a console, with no GUI. Does that work? If it does (or even if it doesn't) it will give us more idea of where the problem might be.
Also, is this a problem that has developed suddenly, or have you just installed a distro and found you can't log into it?
If you are trying to login from a GUI (your post does not tell so), then it this can happen if the /home/username directory is not found.
Normally it will give you an error though.
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