AH help I'm prawend!! Xubuntu says my password is incorrect when I enter it to ajust settings even though it let me log in. I don't have numlock and I don't have caps lock on. I have used a text editor to type out the password and paste it in to be sure and it still fails. After failing once I need to restart the computer to let me enter again or it will skip the password enter and go strait to the password failure notification.
-Any help at all would be greatly appreciated as it's a pain in the @ss to reinstall on my laptop as it's a Toshiba Portege 3490CT.
-Tom

Boot a cd rescue option. If it doesn't have (my Kubuntu edgy doesn't), boot an ubuntu or edubuntu rescue. Mount your root. type passwd for root, and passwd name_of_user for anyone else. Be kind, do not use to take over servers locally.

I have already tried, thanx but I have no bootable cd drive, it's hard to get the damn laptop to boot from anything as it has no drives, I have to swap the hard drives from another laptop to install an os on it. Anyway I think a reinstall is in order here.

Sorry for being too short, but when you boot rescue mode, and you use passwd, you aren't asked for previous password so you can change it. But I didn't know you have absolutely no drives except for the hd. ¿You cannot boot in single user mode to retake root password as I said before?. So then I just got to think if your laptop was configured to boot bootp over network (now you can't without root access), or attaching temporarily an pcmcia cdrom drive to boot, which is not always easy. The thing is at least regenerating a passwd-shadow pair and then copying over, but you can't access soooo... you have to boot from another source to do it without single user mode. G-Luck.

Thanx I also have no network on it as I need to set it up with the password, I remind that sudo still works and I have a usb cd-rom drive so could I somehow reinstall XFCE if that would work?
I reinstalled and I still have the same trouble!
I wonder if it's the keyboard config somehow, though if I type out the password it is correct.
Thanx for any help

Meh Screw it! can anyone recomend another lightweight distro with xfce?

I'm pretty sure that Kate Os and Vector Linux have XFCE as default desktop.

Some laptops can boot USB drives, if yours can, you can use a rescue option from ubuntu cd.

thanx but are they lightweight?
and also I can't boot from usb, stupid Toshiba 3490CT!

ok so I see that vector is light, thanx
-tom