problems logging in sometimes
 

Hi ...i have installed Backtrack 5 on an old pc.
i log in and give my username and password and everything is fine
but when i power down i use shutdown -P now............or i use shutdown -H now...
the problem is when i power back up sometimes i need to press enter to get the id and password lines to come up
and sometimes the @ symobol seems to appear just before it says password and when this happens ...i get password not found.
can anyone explain why.....

secondly sometimes when i am in root directory and type ls
it lists the directories but the writing is coloured...
and other times its plain white....
why is this

sorry ...im a total newbie and also a bit of a perfectionist...i need to understand everything.

thank you

Hi there

Have you considered posting a problem at the distro's developer/community site

www.backtrack-linux.org

Release 5 is the latest build according to their site, and you might have stumbled on an introduced defect, or hardware incompatibility issue.

Regards

C