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hi all,

i have a related question - that is, the same, but under slightly different circumstances:

i have a thinkpad x300 and got used to having a startup password which was the same as my...

Ok, I wanted to post a link to this thread from

#1 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1516915
#2 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=357146

so that people might find it and comment...

Thanks a lot, elrindell for this workaround! I do not know how you got your script running, though, because I had to do a lot of man learning and googling before I got it working for me.

Now I...

Desperate to work on my computer again, I basically tried everything I found in these two threads

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/269215
...

Ok, I learned that I can boot in the recovery mode. Now I am sitting before the text prompt, feeling pretty illiterate even after reading man chmod. And my term paper waiting on my computer to be...

Thanks, ibuclaw, for your quick reply. :)

Ah, but no, I do have only one partition.

In that case, how do I go about fixing the permissions? And from where - do I do it from the Live CD?

Hi all,

yesterday I did a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10. Everything worked fine for several restarts, including after installing a Vista VM in Virtualbox. Yet since this morning, I cannot boot...