Bucky Ball
August 15th, 2008, 03:29 PM
Hi all. Something kinda bizarre ...
Just installed UbuntuStudio Hardy on the desktop and after a bit of screwing around, finally got it booting okay. With feelings of pride and achievement, I checked out the cool new logon screen. Time to explore, so I type in my username and password and ... wrong. But I just wrote them down? Try again. Try some variations even though the correct ones are staring back at me from the page. Hmm.
Boot into recovery and open shell. Type in
ls /home
All that is in there is
lost+found. No user directory. Took me a second to realise what was missing, and before I did, I also tried:
passwd mycorrectlogin
All to no avail, because that user directory should be in /home.
I really need some help with this puzzle as I can't log in and can seem to find no info so far in my searching. When I formatted the partitions, I created 10GB / and 50GB /home. That is it. Didn't think I needed to create any more than that (I have another 80GB fat32 in the machine for storage and swap with XP).
Little help? :confused:
Just installed UbuntuStudio Hardy on the desktop and after a bit of screwing around, finally got it booting okay. With feelings of pride and achievement, I checked out the cool new logon screen. Time to explore, so I type in my username and password and ... wrong. But I just wrote them down? Try again. Try some variations even though the correct ones are staring back at me from the page. Hmm.
Boot into recovery and open shell. Type in
ls /home
All that is in there is
lost+found. No user directory. Took me a second to realise what was missing, and before I did, I also tried:
passwd mycorrectlogin
All to no avail, because that user directory should be in /home.
I really need some help with this puzzle as I can't log in and can seem to find no info so far in my searching. When I formatted the partitions, I created 10GB / and 50GB /home. That is it. Didn't think I needed to create any more than that (I have another 80GB fat32 in the machine for storage and swap with XP).
Little help? :confused: