pcar916
August 28th, 2013, 08:54 PM
Fairly new to the LINUX world.
The problem:
1. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will not allow me to log in any more. I have a 12.04 USB drive I can still boot from. The login (splash) screen simply returns with the standard error message
"Invalid password, please try again"
The environment:
1. Toshiba Satellite A215 (I know, ancient. But it's always worked fine)
2. Kernel: 3.2.0-49-generic
3. This is a dual-boot Win 7 machine with a menu (GRUB) that allows the standard options.
4. The boot menu and Ubuntu partition booted fine for more than a year, but suddenly, and repeatedly, gives the error message described above.
What I've tried:
5. I've tried to login to an earlier kernels with precisely the same result
6. I have tried to reset the user password with the following procedure. Using the GRUB menu I've booted into recovery mode and (as root) issued the following commands to reset the user password.
mount -rw -o remount /
passwd <username>
The system reports the password change as successful... but on reboot it still doesn't work.
The only good thing is that it's staying broken... nothing intermittent about it.
Anyone know What my next step should be?
Thanks in advance,
Ron
The problem:
1. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will not allow me to log in any more. I have a 12.04 USB drive I can still boot from. The login (splash) screen simply returns with the standard error message
"Invalid password, please try again"
The environment:
1. Toshiba Satellite A215 (I know, ancient. But it's always worked fine)
2. Kernel: 3.2.0-49-generic
3. This is a dual-boot Win 7 machine with a menu (GRUB) that allows the standard options.
4. The boot menu and Ubuntu partition booted fine for more than a year, but suddenly, and repeatedly, gives the error message described above.
What I've tried:
5. I've tried to login to an earlier kernels with precisely the same result
6. I have tried to reset the user password with the following procedure. Using the GRUB menu I've booted into recovery mode and (as root) issued the following commands to reset the user password.
mount -rw -o remount /
passwd <username>
The system reports the password change as successful... but on reboot it still doesn't work.
The only good thing is that it's staying broken... nothing intermittent about it.
Anyone know What my next step should be?
Thanks in advance,
Ron