can't access admin account
 

I just created a Guest user account. When I rebooted, it went right into the Guest Account, without allowing me to choose and log in to the admin account. I tried Login Window and New Login in Administration panel. I tried Logout, but nothing happened when trying.

what's your distribution?

Linux Mint 17.1

Try going to a virtual terminal (ctrl+alt+F2) & log in there as the root user. Be careful if you are not familiar with Linux you can do a lot of damage as the root user. (Ctrl+alt+F7 should return you to the GUI.)

is my user name entered as root user?

kemosabe,

This covers several eventualities:

https://www.liberiangeek.net/2013/03...ring-ringtail/

When installing Mint as with most/all other Ubuntu derivatives, you must create at least one user during the install. That is the primary user and that user will have admin/root privileges so that when you login using a terminal, you would preface any command with: sudo

The behavior you describe could be explained if you set the guest account to autologin when you created it although I'm sure there are other explanations.

thanks
 

Giving up and starting over, a little smarter. Thanks for your help.