On 05/06/2011 05:33 PM, dan moylan wrote: > nuno almeida wrote: >> On 05/05/2011 11:12 AM, dan moylan wrote: >>> as root i did an adduser mem (wife) and rebooted. again >>> trying moylan, i was returned to the loging screen. trying >>> mem, it went off into never never land. rebooted and went >>> back in as root, all ok. >> Is your home partition full or do you have quotas set up and it's >> full/grace period expired? Sometimes that can be the reason for these >> "strange" errors, as you can't write to the disk. One other thing to >> check is if the uid/guid are correct. > /home/moylan is 56 0.000000ull, no quotas that i know of, uid/guid look > fine. > > Rob Hasselbaum wrote: >> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:12 AM, dan moylan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> tiring of this, i downloaded 11.04, burned a disk, and >>> started a reinstall. when i got to the repartitioning >>> screen, i started to recreate my previous partitions. >>> i was able to set up / and /home, but when i tried to define >>> /wrk0, i was only given the options on the pull-down screen >>> (/, /home, etc) and was totally unable to enter any text >>> into the box. %$#!@*^?. >> Ubuntu's installer will not let you type in arbitrary mount points for >> existing partitions. Strangely, Kubuntu's installer does. Not sure if this >> was just an oversight or a conscious decision to make them different. In any >> event, you can always modify fstab after the install to get your mount back. > actually ubuntu 10.10 (and all previous ones that i have used) > do allow one to type in arbitrary mount points. > >> Regarding your original problem with login, did you check the logs? >> Xorg.0.log or the GDM log might contain some insight. > looked there but didn't see anything untoward (admittedly, i > am not overly familiar with those logs). > > to continue the sad saga, i went ahead with the reinstall, and > successfully logged in as moylan, and mounted the last > three partitions via fstab, and created a root password. > however, when i rebooted, i was again unable to login as moylan. > > i logged in as root and went about setting things up, except > the wireless wouldn't connect. i'm very familiar with > network manager but couldn't get any connection. i > previously had no problem getting connected after my initial > on-line upgrade. > > somewhat discouraged, i reinstalled 10.10 with no problems, > and resolved to wait until the next install fest whereupon > jerry will show me that the problems really weren't. Push your problems on me :-)
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