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This universe is crazy. I'm going back to my own.
Thanks, I did not knowingly install rng-tools, I just used the default installation.
I deinstalled rng-tools and I now get a login in screen, it was set to autologin previously, if I log in as me it does not say the password is incorrect but just throws me back to the login screen again, there is a guest session option that alllows me to see a default set up but none of the apps or folders I have under my username. I can still login to the command line OK and see all the files and folders under my user name. At least we have a screen back, so that is progress!.
OK I still have a non working system and a child unable to play minecraft. What do I need to do to get this system up and running properly again?. For some reason it will go into guest login ok, will not go to user name, just throws me out and failsafe graphics will not run. What logs dumps or whatever is needed to get this working?
Sometimes that indicates an ownership / permissions problem in the user's home dir - please login at the command line (in a virtual terminal e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1) and post the outputs of
Code:ls -ld $HOME ls -l $HOME/.{ICE,X}authority
I have reinstalled Unity and Desktop and it still has not made any dofference, I can get into guest mode but not user mode, just throws me out. I can see everything from the command line but failsafe graphics mode does not work, lets repeat that again because its a little bit counter intuitive failsafe graphics will not work
Thanks for the reply!
I can only use the command line from "drop to root shell prompt" so its in root, if thats ok.
drwx------ 24 root root 4096 Feb 22 20:13 /root
and
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 24 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 18:58 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 18:58 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun16 2012 GNUstep
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 18:58 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 15 21:49 New Folder
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 18:58 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 18:58 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 18:58 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 18:58 Videos
Last edited by Russ_H; February 25th, 2013 at 09:09 PM. Reason: missed space after ./
OK if you're logged in at the root console you will have to specify your username explicitly instead of using $HOME i.e.
We do need to use username's info - not root'sCode:ls -ld /home/username ls -l /home/username/.{ICE,X}authority
It looks like you typed a space between the dot and the {ICE,X} in that second command - can you try it again exactly as shown please? you should get only 2 lines back e.g.
Code:$ ls -l /home/user/.{ICE,X}authority ls: cannot access /home/user/.ICEauthority: No such file or directory -rw------- 1 user user 54 Feb 19 17:44 /home/user/.Xauthority
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