[Bug 456183] Re: Kubuntu won't accept my password

[username1038]

Explain to me how this isn't a bug? Jaunty works fine . . .



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From: "Kees Cook" <kees at ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:10 PM
To: <anonymous_1038 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Bug 456183] Re: Kubuntu won't accept my password

> Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we
> are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it
> would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker.
> Please visit https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
>
> ** Changed in: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Invalid
>
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> Kubuntu won't accept my password
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456183
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> Status in “kdebase-workspace” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gdm
>
> I'm new to Linux (this is my 4th or 5th day, and my first operating system 
> other than what Microsoft puts out), so walk me through any fixes nice and 
> easy.
>
> Using Ubuntu 9.10 beta Karmic Koala with the EXT4 un-encrypted file 
> system. Couldn't come up with a "package name", whatever that is . . . I 
> tried the 'apt-cache policy packagename' thingy, and it spat some kind of 
> error in my face saying it couldn't find a package name. If it's 
> important, let me know.
>
> I have installed Karmic onto an SD card, and that system is running 
> flawlessly. So there's nothing wrong with the disc I have etc.
>
> However, every time I install Karmic onto a hard drive, it won't accept my 
> password when I try to login or authorize something. I have tried about 16 
> complete installs to date, and this happens every time.
>
> I'm using the option to use the whole hard drive; not sharing with another 
> OS. I thought the problem might have been the SATA hardware RAID setup I 
> have for my Windows install, because GRUB (versions 1 and 2) was throwing 
> a temper tantrum and refusing to install unless there was only one drive 
> in the system (separate problem, I know . . .). But 
> disconnecting/disabling the entire RAID array didn't change anything.
>
> Everything installs okay, but when I go to log-in to the graphical 
> interface, it won't accept my password. Once, I tried the shell-based 
> (text-only, whatever you call it) login, and there was no difference in 
> behavior. As you can imagine, over the course of 16 installs, I've become 
> very careful about writing the password down and entering it verbatim, so 
> please don't flood me with spam about Caps-Lock or a bad memory.
>
> Oddly enough, sometimes when I enter the password very slowly, it works. 
> Once I'm signed in, whenever I would try to do something that required 
> root privileges, it would ask for the password again, and it would be the 
> same story: enter it very slowly, and sometimes it would work.
>
> I've tried a couple different IDE hard drives (old stuff that I had lying 
> around), and they all do the same thing. I have not tried to install on 
> any other kind of hard drives (SATA, SCSI, etc.). As I said before, I have 
> had no trouble with my SD-card-in-a-USB-reader installation.
>
> I've tried changing the password using the install/boot CD. All seems to 
> work well at first, and it tells me that the password has been changed. 
> But when I try to log in, the new password doesn't work either. Once the 
> password has been changed, I can no longer get through by typing slowly - 
> the account is completely locked. In order to log in, I have to go back 
> out to the install/boot CD and create a new account, then go back to 
> typing the password slowly on the new account.
>
> On a couple of the installs, I tried having Karmic log in automatically on 
> boot. This works perfectly. However, when I do something which requires 
> root (drivers, etc.), it of course asks me for my password, and we're back 
> to square one.
>
> I suppose a guy could enable auto-login and use the install CD to assign 
> his username admin and root, and then he'd never have to worry about 
> passwords. But it doesn't address the problem, and doing this is a 
> security/stability nightmare.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Oct 20 03:14:07 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu8
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
> SourcePackage: gdm
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
>

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