Cushie
October 9th, 2011, 11:11 AM
I have just upgraded from a very stable 11.04 to the latest daily version of 11.10 (Beta2+) on my Acer Aspire One netbook, but with no great success getting many hangups and errors so I reinstalled the upgrade option again from live usb, keeping my original separate 'home' directory and username. I chose auto login during the install which did not succeed but get to a login screen yet I cannot login or shut down.
I reset the 'passwd' just in case, then did another reinstall to make sure I was using the correct password (same one I have always used) but still cannot login or shut down.
Is there a simple fix to reconfigure or reinstall something to get over this problem. suggestions would be appreciated.
PS I can get to # prompt terminal via recovery option and I can login with 'username' and password, this allows me to list the home directory and all the file are intact. As a point of interest what command would run the desktop manager gdm? startx? or something new to 11.10?
I reset the 'passwd' just in case, then did another reinstall to make sure I was using the correct password (same one I have always used) but still cannot login or shut down.
Is there a simple fix to reconfigure or reinstall something to get over this problem. suggestions would be appreciated.
PS I can get to # prompt terminal via recovery option and I can login with 'username' and password, this allows me to list the home directory and all the file are intact. As a point of interest what command would run the desktop manager gdm? startx? or something new to 11.10?