The "missing" password!

[Martín Cigorraga]

Hello all, let me share my experience with a very similar issue:

@Mischa: in my experience it's highly improbable that the problem you
describe here is related at all with a 'password issue'.
What I'm more inclined to think is that after the upgrade your / or /home
partitions are out of space and so the log-in fails as the DE (Unity) can't
create or modify need configuration files.
What I suggest to you is to log to your user account via a console (via
Ctrl + Alt + F1), log in and check the remaining space on your partitions:
$ df -hl
If you are effectively out of space try fo free a few megabytes and that
should do it.
Tip: if your /home directory depends on / you could make some space by
cleaning the apt cache:
$ sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get autoremove

HTH!



On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Mischa Falkenburg <
because_productions at myfairpoint.net> wrote:

>  On 03/30/2014 08:23 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote:
>
> I do not know what could be causing this issue
> Passwords are stored in /etc/shadow. Make sure this file matches up with
> /etc/passwd
> To attempt to recover, you might try booting from your Ubuntu live CD,
> mounting your partition, chrooting to it's mount point and changing the
> password with the `passwd' command.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Mischa Falkenburg <
> because_productions at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Did the 12.4.3 upgrade, AFAIK w/out a hitch, BUT, after reboot and login
>> page loads, it doesn't accept my password.
>> What folder can I check to find what this blankety-blank-blank system
>> thinks my password NOW is?
>>
>> Thnx, Mischa
>>
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>  Thanks Niles, I'll give it a go...
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