Laptop has locked me out

[pablo180]

Looks like I spoke too soon. Unfortunately that only worked until the next time I booted up, whereupon I had the problem again. I tried that command again:

sudo update-rc.d -f dbus defaults

But I got a 'File already exists' message. Dbus was definitely running as I could see it in the booting up screen ('dbus started' or something like that), but the only way I could log in this time was to restart it:

sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

That works and I can login, but now I have to do that everytime I boot up my laptop! It is not a massive problem but just a bit annoying.

I tried restoring /etc/init.d/dbus from a backup from a couple of months ago, but that didn't make any difference.

Are there any other dbus files or configuration files that I could restore to put things right?

Thanks for the help.

[pablo180]

Fixed it! I just restored every backup that I had of the /etc/ folder, one after another. Not sure what it did, but everything is working perfectly again now and my touchpad is working at log in.

Important lesson learned, don't mess with the Services tick boxes, it's just not worth it!