see below:
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 22:39, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <
kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> see below.
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 19:12, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <
> kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> see below.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:46, Chris Bannister <
>> cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> [Please!, don't top post in this mailing list.]
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:36:38AM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hola!
>>> >
>>> > I- m starting to get desperate! I found lots of instructions on the
>>> > web about how to solve this, but none of them works. Example, I
>>> > founmd this
>>> >
>>> > In grub press e ton edit options
>>> > add to init options
>>> >
>>> > init=/bin/sh
>>> > RET
>>> > press b to boot
>>> > Then mount -o remount,rw /
>>> > passwd kjetil
>>> > (repeating new password twice)
>>> > exec init
>>>
>>> Instead of changing your password like that, what I'd do is after "mount
>>> -o remount,rw" I'd "vim /etc/passwd" and take out the x for root:
>>>
>>> i.e before:
>>> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>>>
>>> after
>>> root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>>>
>>> save it, (make sure it saved ok.) then reboot.
>>>
>>> You should now be able to login as root without needing a password
>>> and investigate from there.
>>>
>>> Does that work?
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks. So far not .
>>
>> Several problems:
>>
>> ¿Whats the point with the line init=/bin/sh ?
>>
>> It does not seem to work, I am dropped into bash
>>
>> ¿shoud I remove the x in /etcv/passwd or in /etc/shadow or in both?
>>
>> so far I tried in /etc/passwd
>> and it does not work.
>>
>
>
> This is _very_ strange. When I start maintenance mode, I am allowed
> to change the password. While in the shell, without running X, I can the do
> login kjetil
> giving my passwd, and can enter the account.
>
> I can do sudo startx
> wh8ich now starts X (for me, xfce), but it is started as root! which is
> not nwhat I want, I need to be running xfce as "kjetil.
>
> Then logging out, restarting, trying to logging on as usual --- agaiun, do
> not work!
>
> ???
>
Problem finally diaghnosed and solved: Problem source
was a syntax error in file $HOME/.profile
>
> Kjetil
>
>>
>> Kjetil
>>
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>>
>>
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>> "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the
>> human face - forever."
>>
>> George Orwell (1984)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the
> human face - forever."
>
> George Orwell (1984)
>
>
>
>
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"If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human
face - forever."
George Orwell (1984)
