[ale] unable to login after mess up

[Damon Chesser]

On 2/26/2011 10:25 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Friends:
> Thanks for your time and attention.
> Last night, out of sheer frustration and stupidity, I completely 
> uninstalled the Myth portion from the MythUbuntu install.
> After this, I cleaned up the folders related to mytv.
> I then tried to login but I am blocked at the initial login screen.  
> My password is correct since I can putty to this session from another 
> machine.
> I tried all Sessions, Mythubuntu, Xfce, User Defined.
> I then used the option Recovery, logged in and did an sudo apt-get 
> upgrade and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.
> Both were a success.
> However after reboot, I am unable to login again.
> So what gives ?\

No idea, but you could try to do cntrl-alt-F1, log in as your user.  If 
this works, then cd /var/log/; sudo tail -f messages auth.log syslog

Then hit ctrl-alt-FX where X is your X-sessions, and try to log in.  If 
you fail, the reason will be outputed in the logs you are tailing on 
virt-term-1.

Then we will start to have a clue.

HTH!
> -Narahari
>
>
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Damon Chesser
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