Help can't login!

[Bahn, Nathan]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:06 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 9:03 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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)
> > --
> Tried that asks for my sudo passwd then back to prompt no other output!
> Thanks for your help




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