Help can't login!

[Pete Smout]

@google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
sent from my HTC.
On Sep 15, 2013 9:03 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> > @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
> > sent from my HTC.
> > On Sep 15, 2013 8:47 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > Just rebooted my 13.04 laptop, and I cannot login, lightdm comes up,
I
> >> > enter
> >> > my password, and end up back at the login screen!
> >> > I can get in with another user account, but it does not have root
> >> > access, so
> >> > I can only view logs on syslog viewer, not all logs! As in not the
> >> > lightdm
> >> > log or the greater log, which I can see in the file broswer but not
> >> > open!
> >> > I have changed the passed of my account (after the trouble started)
to
> >> > see
> >> > if it was authentication problem, but no change.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas gratefully received.
> >> >
> >> > Pete Smout
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Do you know how to access the command line interface?
> >
> > Yes I can login to a shell using my name and passwd.....?
>
>
>
> please try:
> $ su -l XXX
> where XXX =your login ID (please note "-l" is NOT the number one)
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Tried that asks for my sudo passwd then back to prompt no other output!
Thanks for your help
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