wont let me log in
Hello,
I installed Mint 17 xfce onto a friend's HP netbook a few months ago. Up until now all has been working pretty perfectly. From this evening, she tells me that after she types in her password the following message appears: no exec. line in this session file [her password appears here in plain text!] running the GNOME failsafe session instead The only option at this point is seemingly to click ok. After that, this message appears: Could not find the GNOME installation will try running the failsafe xterm session Again the only option is to click ok, then this appears for a few seconds: Cannot find xterm start a failsafe session Then it goes to a black screen (though you can see the mouse cursor) on which it stays indefinitely. She tells me that she wasn't trying to do anything other than web browsing and email checking before this started happening so there doesn't seem to be any logical reason behind it. Does anybody have any idea what is happening and how to fix it? |
Can you do CTRL-ALT-F1 and get a system console, then login at that point? If yes, then I'd suggest an apt update, followed by trying to re-install gnome with the force option. There may be options to fix gnome from that console, just beyond my knowledge. If you can't get a system console, then unfortunately I'd try a re-install.
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As a last alternative to a full reinstall if you can't get a system console you can try booting from a live DVD/USB. Mount up the real root partition and you may be able to fix it.
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I do think that J Martin's suggestion is great if you also happen to find a parallel thread here or in another forum which states something like "edit <this> file and change <that>" or "delete <this> file and reboot" something like that. There are a lot of things like that for gnome where it gets hosed up and then you can fix it if you hit the right "one tip" solution that works in your case. |
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Our diskless machines download a system image. That image is built from a directory structure and you can chroot into that. It's CentOs, so not quite the same, but I can use yum to install software with no problems. Therefore I'd image that chrooting onto a mounted sytem disk ought to be fine.
A couple of other suggestions: 1) During boot set the single user flag. 2) If you can mount the disk on a live distro, set the initdefault (the run level) in /etc/inittab to be 2 or 3. X11 won't start and you ought to have a simple command line console. |
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Yeah, but they're not using Cent nor Arch, they're using Mint and likely the Ubuntu variation. That's all plug-n-play for the desktop person.
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OK, I'll stick my head up and wait for someone to knock it off...
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Can you get to the login prompt as asked previously? if you can, would Code:
$ startx my :twocents: Play Bonny! :hattip: |
Still cant get on is there Any codes I can put in terminal
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I tried logging in nothing and when I press ctl alt f2 I put starts it went blank screen how can I login now it keeps sayin what its has been saying in my first post
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Try your FIRST login attempt at a system console which you attain by doing the CTRL-ALT-F sequence after it boots, but before you try to login at the UI based screen. |
I pressed ctl alt 1 typed my password in ect the it come up with a green line what to do next as I am new to all this
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There should be no green line, nor any graphics at all, when you do that, it's a text only console.
So it confuses me that you see any color at all. Being very new at it, hard to recommend that you boot off of a CD/DVD or USB and try to fix this rather than re-install. What you could try to do is boot off o the CD/DVD or USB (whatever media you had originally to install from, and then grab files from the system so as to not lose stuff. And then re-install. But give it a bit, someone may offer some suggestions a bit better, if they see something I'm not in your problem description. |
Its Green text with my name ect
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You are now on a console and can type any command. Starting with a system update as suggested in a previous post: Code:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade |
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Somehow I don't think you have a text only console at all. :( If you substitute F2, F2, F4, F4, F5, F6 or F7 for F1 after <ctrl><alt> you would open different consoles: tty2,3,4,5,6 and tty7 - as marked in my quote above. if you used F8 you would get the Graphic User Interface (GUI) if it was available. Am I right? Can you confirm what you get please? Play Bonny! :hattip: |
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