Help can't login!

[Pete Smout]

Infact to prove I'm not mad......
http://db.tt/uxAHoqCZ
@google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
sent from my HTC.
On Sep 15, 2013 9:10 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> @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.....?
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>> >
>> > 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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