I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on Thursday, and today did some work on the system. Everything was fine until I left the computer to do some errands. When I came back, the computer was locked down, and I could not get a login screen. I SSHed in and rebooted. I never got to a login screen that time either. The display alternated between the Ubuntu boot display and a black screen in about a two second cycle. I shut down entirely, rebooted, and see the same.
I can SSH into the system. The encrypted user directory is not mounted. I tried mounting it and got this: r...@dzur:/home# su ccurley getpwuid: Permission denied bash: /etc/bash.bashrc: Permission denied bash-4.0$ ecryptfs-mount-private Enter your login passphrase: Inserted auth tok with sig [1db4c5b88818d8c1] into the user session keyring getpwuid: Permission denied bash-4.0$ ls /etc/ ls: cannot open directory /etc/: Permission denied bash-4.0$ I do not have the recovery passphrase. Suggestions? -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
