I cannot login to tty after fresh install

[rompelstilchen]

hello

after a fresh xubuntu (quetzal) inlstall , i wanted to install the nvidia drivers
but i cannot login to tty1 with my regular login name
lthough it works in xfce terminal emulator (with sudo for instance)

pls help ...

[Bashing-om]

rompelstilchen; Hi ! Welcome to the forum .

It is unclear to me the nature of your problem. Do you mean that the key combo ctl+alt+f1 does not yield tty1 console, or once to tty1 your username and/or password is not accepted ? What are you attempting to do and what steps are you taking to attempt to do so ?

try'n to help

[solarghost]

What username are you trying to log in with? Best way to check that you are logging in with the correct username is in your UI session open the terminal and type the command

whoami

then make sure you are trying to login with whatever whoami returns.

[rompelstilchen]

i go to the tty1 with alt+ctrl+F1
and i use my regular user (the one who works with sudo)
so i use my user name/my password
the only user i created at install time

[sudodus]

Do you have some special characters in your user name or your password, I mean some character with a higher ascii number than 127?

[rompelstilchen]

well it says that i am logged with the user i created at intall time
so i guess that user is created for x sessions, not for tty sessions, but i dont know how to achieve this, and if it is a good idea(security reasons)

the plan is to install nvidia drivers for an old geforce 4200

i found the drivers, but it requires to be done with no x running
so i guess i would have to turn off lightdm too

but i need to be able to login in tty1/2/3...

[rompelstilchen]

nop 4 regular letters

[sudodus]

- Do you get the prompt to log in after ctrl + alt + F1 ?

- What is written, after you enter your user name?

- What is written, after you enter your password? There is no output while you type your password, just finish with the ENTER key.

[rompelstilchen]

look i have used termi,nals for years, i just put my question in the beginner question cos it is an easy first attemp question
i installed xubuntu (and on the xubuntu web page, i got redirected here)

so it is like



login : i type my 4 letters login then enter]
password : i type my password [enter]

wrong login and password

login :

[sudodus]

I see that you know what to do. And I have to admit that I don't understand what is happening.

There is something wrong, your system should allow this.

1. Do you use some special locale (national keyboard setting), that would be different between the graphical user interface and the text screen?

2. Try to log in via the recovery mode at the grub menu.

3. Maybe you can try this work-around: (If you need, you can restore it when booted from the Xubuntu install drive.)

Backup these two files (to be restored if necessary).

sudo cp -p /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.sav
sudo cp -p /boot/grub/grub.cfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg.sav

edit your /etc/default/grub file. Change the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash text"

(save the file) and run

sudo update-grub

and reboot. Now you should arrive directly at a text screen. I hope you can log in.