Ubuntu :: Unable Login - Reinstall Does Not Work
Apr 4, 2010
ubuntu 9.10
1. I setup log in as automatic log in with 0 sec wait time.
1a. Some times it log's in with out any problem. 1b. Many times login page appears and asked me to enter password. 1c. But it did not accept password BUT some times it accepts it
2. I have indic script (Tamil), some times instead of english it switched to Tamil script.
2a. Shift+Alt switch toggles english and tamil, BUT some times it is not working. If it sticks in Tamil script i can not type url or username/password. Simply i have to use bookmarks in browser. 2b. I want to use Tamil 99, but i am not getting it, i got some different one, which is useless to me.
3. SO i decided to reinstall ubuntu 9.10.
3a. I am using DELL dimension 4100 desktop. 3b. I tried F8, del, esc buttons, got BIOS but not installer option. 3c. When i install ubuntu 9.04 i got a proper screen so installation was easy. (switched from windows to ubuntu) 3d. How to reinstall (clean install) ubuntu 9.10?
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Nov 23, 2009
I have a Fedora Core 6 web server I've been testing. Everything was working fine(http, mysql, etc) until I installed Shorewall. After a reboot, now I get "(NONE): LOGIN" From what I've googled on this, this isn't an uncommon error, but I don't see any consistent way to correct this issue. Everyone just says boot single user and change roots pw. But thats where I run into problems. When I log in single user mode and try to run "passwd" to change root pw, I get "module not found". I've tried running vi(vim) to edit /etc/passwd but I also get an error about a library file missing. So, I'm at the point of thinking about reinstalling FC6. I'm assuming I should upgrade to a new version of FC. If I do this, will it "break" http and mysql? What version would be safest to upgrade to from FC6? Would it be better to just reinstall FC6 on top of whats there?
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I just recently upgraded to 10.04 so I have to reinstall utorrent. Last time I did it with wine using this method: [URL]. It seemed to work fine with 9.10 but now I try it again and when I double click the utorrent launcher on my desktop it literally does nothing. Doesn't open anything, nor does it even report an error message.
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Aug 3, 2011
My dual booting Unbuntu/windows computer is failing to boot. I have tried to reinstall GRUB but have so far been unsuccessful. I used the Ubuntu Secured 64bits live CD to run Boot Repair and this reported:
There is no boot backup on this computer. This will reinstall GRUB bootloader. Do you want to continue.On continuing, "Boot Repair" reported under "Last Confirmation/Advanced Options":
(Requires internet) Manually purge and reinstall the GRUB of: Ubuntu 11-04 (sdb1).When I click Apply, Boot Repair asks me to enter the following in a terminal:
sudo chroot /mnt/clean/sdb1 apt-get install -y grub-pcHowever, the terminal then responds:
chroot: failed to run command apt-get : No such file or directory.Which was quite disappointing!
I have also tried Super Grub2 Disk and Rescatux and these also failed.I entered "sudo fdisk -l" and this seemed to identify all the disks and partitions corrected (I will supply the terminal output in a following post). The only issue is that I expected sdb1 to be indicated as Boot, but it wasn't.
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I have problem with skype in ubuntu 11.04 Sometimes skype do not launch and after reinstall skype it`s work and every day is same.
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I first installed asterisk using sudo apt-get install asterisk on ubuntu 10.04. After doing this the SIP packages did not install for some odd reason.I uninstalled asterisk using sudo apt-get remove asterisk then reinstalled and now none of the asterisk config files are gone. deleted all files and directories I could find relating to asterisk, rebooted the machine, did a kernal upgrade, and a package update and reinstalled asterisk using sudo apt-get install asterisk, and all the config files are still missing. What am I missing here!
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Jan 8, 2010
I dual boot with windows xp and ubuntu 9.10. When using windows my wireless works fine but when using ubuntu my wireless does not work. The first time ubuntu was loaded the wireless was working and then while I was trying to figure out how to load a program I messed up a grub file. As I couldn't fix it I just reinstalled Ubuntu and since then my wireless is inoperable in Ubuntu only.
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Dec 26, 2010
for some reason Win7 has gone and run a startup repair (there was two boot options in GRUB, perhaps I chose the wrong one by accident) which has corrupted my GRUB. Now, the only way I can get anything to run is by booting Ubuntu of a live-pendrive/flashdrive! I tried following a couple of walkthroughs that claimed to fix the problem; and I don't doubt that they work - on someone elses computer! I receive errors whenever I try to use things like 'sudo grub' and often (but not always) with 'mkdir' and 'mount' - and I have very little idea what some of them are doing (I gather 'mkdir' is making a directory and 'mount' is mounting a device virtually, but some others are a little harder to guess)
So, I am wondering if someone has a little insight as to how I can fix this and perhaps point me in the correct direction to learning about making my way around ubuntu and these fancy terminal commands! Currently, I am at the stage where I can boot into my flash drive by spamming escape before the bootloader. However, when GRUB loads it tells me there is an error and gives me a command line; through which I have been unable to get anything to happen. I am running Ubuntu 10.10, I believe, and Windows 7 on the same hard-disk and possibly the same partition (though, I am unsure of how Ubuntu works itself into partition's). I also ran a little code (seemed somewhat like a batchfile in windows) that made a txt file of my boot info; I'm attaching it below if that helps at all. Boot Info Results:
[Code]......
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Oct 10, 2010
I recently powered up my netbook... Selected my user log in, entered my password, and after a couple seconds I briefly see what looks to be the console and am returned to the login splash screen... I can Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to the console and log in... but that is as far as I can get. This is the case for Gnome, Remix, and Remix 2D.
I can sudo apt-get (update, upgrade, etc) as well. It is the right password because if I type in a wrong one it presents an authentication failure dialog box.
How can I fix my log in screen and get to my desktop? I am Currently running 10.04.... waiting to get 10.10
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Nov 18, 2010
i have windows xp and federo installed on my system on seperate partition and using grub loader for dual boot. Unfortunately am unable to boot the windows and it hangs with the blue screen and with safe mode it stops at mup.sys and doesnt proceed further.I tried booting with a windows xp CD but it looks like it is unable to recognize the disk even if i say boot with a CD in BIOS settings. Does anybody knows how to make the CD recognizable so that i can go into the windows repair mode.
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Dec 4, 2010
Had a working WinXp/Karmic dual boot system. Tried to upgrade Karmic to Lucid and my daughter rebooted the system during the upgrade. I decided to do a fresh install of ubuntu, leaving Windows in place and it succeeded until the end when it said it could install the bootloader, so I proceeded without. I meant to say "it said it couldn't install the bootloader, so I proceeded without.
On booting, Grub drops to the command line.
I get grub>, not grub-rescue>
I did ls in grub and it showed the partitions I expected
/sda5 is /boot
/sda6 is /swap
/sda7 is /
/sda8 is /home
I tried to follow the grub2 command line manual by entering
Code:
set root=(hd0,7) (success)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=/dev/sda7 ro (failed - couldn't find file)
so I'm now a bit stuck.
Here are my bootinfo_script results (by the way, sdb is just an e-SATA hard disc with nothing installed on it, I don't know why bootinfo thinks Windows is there. Windows is on /sda2 with some sort of backup/recovery partition on /sda1)
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
Boot Info Summary:
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #7 for /boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb .....
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Mar 15, 2010
System was fine with :Ubuntu 9.04 (had also installed kde )then....I wanted to try some change to gdm so i downloaded gdm while building it , it asked "PAM" libraries to be installed so i installed PAM ... but ignored the instruction to reinstall SHADOW (library i guess..),Now :on booting system i get login menu but i am not able to login , it says some critical error occured
1) install new copy of UBUNTU and remove old
ps :1) i can log into system through live cd
2) i can use recovery mode boot and log into terminal as root(startx is not working from this terminal..
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Feb 2, 2010
After running wireless for years my system crashed, I've had to re install lenny and now what ever I try I can't get the wireless to work. I'm running Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 but when I start up it doesn't seem to be able to start the wireless, whatever I do from gnome wireless tools,
dmesg | grep -i iwl
shows this
[9.663570] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
[9.663570] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
[9.663570] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
[9.725672] iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels
[9.736286] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
[20.518187] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
[20.654215] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[20.654215] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
[23.376244] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
[23.385408] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[23.385408] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
[40.503987] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
[40.519721] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[40.519728] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
The end statements repeat many times.
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Feb 27, 2010
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I got the following details off the server:
KERNAL LINUX 2.6.27.5 - 117. fc10.i686
GNOME 2.24.1
MEMORY 881.4 MiB
Processor AMD LE 1620
Samba Server Version 3.2.4-0 fc10
I was told the drives should appear on their own but that's not happening I am not able to sight them at all file sharing and printer sharing is enabled.
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May 1, 2010
when i try to upgrade my system via apt i get the following error:
Quote:
user@user-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
[code]....
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Mar 3, 2011
Running Ubuntu 10.04 and I'm trying to re-install Mac OSX back onto my MBP. I'm running competely off of GRUB and I have no other partitions for any other OSs running. Popped in my MAC OS CD and came up with this error.
Unable to mount location
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-prtected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
How should I go about with removing Ubuntu, and re-installing MAC OSX?
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Sep 14, 2010
Every time I attempted to run "yum update" dependencies failed to resolve citing kernel version problems. I cleaned out a bunch of old versions of kmod-wl that were still on my system (some dating back to my old f12 install) and still had no luck. Finally I removed kmod-wl altogether so that I could update the rest of my system and hoped I could just re-install it once the update was finished. No dice. "yum install kmod-wl" still produces this message (identical to what "yum update" gave when the old kmod-wl was installed):
Code:
Error: Package: kmod-wl-2.6.34.6-47.fc13.i686-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.14.i686 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)
Requires: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.34.6-47.fc13.i686
Installed: kernel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686 (@updates)
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686
[code]....
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Feb 15, 2010
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fb: switching to nouveaufb from OFfb NVDA,NVMac
And then the text starts dissolving, and the entire screen cycles through different colors. I presume it is sitting at the graphical login prompt but it's not displaying correctly.
Based on some Google searches, it seems like I should be able to resolve this by editing /etc/modules but I can't get to that point. I have tried to get to a terminal using ctrl-alt-F1 through ctrl-alt-F12. No luck. I tried different yaboot options that were supposed to avoid using the video driver. No luck. How do I get the machine to boot straight to a regular text login instead of the X one?
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here's the screen, it pops up a second after i restart. usually the pc just boots up a couple seconds later and i can choose beteen win/unbuntu; or i can just press 'esc' and choose to boot from usb. but now nothing is happening, the keyboard doesn't seem to work, and it wont go passed this screen.*edit* actually the keyboard is working, because ctrl-alt-del restarts the computer, but thats about it..
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