I can't Login

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 01:50 AM

Ican't login into ubuntu. When i installed 5 minutes ago i put leyth as username and hello as password. Now its not working what can i do?

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 01:56 AM

The only thing i did was update my software and restart the namea nd password worked earlier.

jschiwal · 07-11-2006, 01:58 AM

Normally, I'd say log in as root and use the passwd command. But on Ubuntu, I don't believe you can log in a root.
See if you can enter the boot parameter "init=/bin/bash". This may get you into init level 1 as root. Then use the "passwd" command to change the password. ( Note: use a better password)

I'm assuming the by "not working" you mean that the system rejected your password. You really should provide more information.

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 02:07 AM

i'm fairly new to linux as a whole, i can't seem to get to the place where i type init=/bin/bash

can you help me out please?

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 02:09 AM

actually i got it and it said password updated successfully let me try it

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 02:11 AM

it doesn't say incorrect password or anything it just takes me straight back to the login screen

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 02:19 AM

can anyone help?

chrism01 · 07-11-2006, 02:20 AM

What exactly does it say?

ethics · 07-11-2006, 02:23 AM

make sure you are typing your user/pass case sensitive.

you can try

Code:

sudo passwd <user_name>

change the password then try logging in again

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 02:23 AM

nothing it doesnt give me and error or anything, takes me to terminal in full screen for a split second and takes me back to the login screen

LeythDC5 · 07-11-2006, 02:42 AM

i just reinstalled and its still doing the same bullshit

jschiwal · 07-11-2006, 04:09 AM

Are you at the graphical login screen. It could be a problem with your X windows setup.

Try going to one of the virtual terminals [CTRL]-[ALT]-[F2] for example, and see if you can log in as a user in a non xwindows session.

jayakrishnan · 07-11-2006, 06:27 AM

seems to be some misconfiguration, he says it takes him to the terminal for split sec, so login is sucessfull, but something happens which logs him out,