Problems loging in

[Bill]

On 3/30/2015 3:24 AM, Marcos Almeida Azevedo wrote:
>
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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Bill <bstanle at wowway.com 
> <mailto:bstanle at wowway.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
>
>     I really need some advice on this one...
>
>     1. I have mint - Mate installed version = rebecca , the latest
>     version and fully updated) installed.
>     2. During a electrical power outage, I turned on my computer
>     (battery backup) but the router was not on battery backup, thus no
>     network connection (I have a wired connection).
>     3. The computer booted up properly with a delay because on no
>     network connection.  I expected this.
>     I successfully got through grub and I got the logon screen.  So
>     far, no problems.
>     4. When I  loged-on to any account, all I get is a black screen
>     and the mouse cursor.  The mouse cursor responds to moving the mouse.
>
>     The electricity is fully restored and I can access the internet
>     but I can't get into any Mint account.My guess is that something
>     is wrong with the X server.  Is there any solutions to this? 
>     Maybe I can get to a command prompt to fix the problem, but how?
>
>     I dual boot with Windows, Ubuntu - Mate, and Mint Mate. Windows
>     works fine so it is not a hardware problem. Although I haven't
>     tested Ubuntu - Mate but I'll bet that works, I'll check later.
>     Since it affects ALL Mint-Mate accounts 
>
>
> You boot and was using Mint Mate when the power outage happened and 
> not Windows right?  So most probably a config file was corrupted
>
>     (admin and regular users) it is something global and not unique to
>     a particular account.
>
WS=> What happened is that I tried to boot AFTER a power outage 
happened.  The power went out a few seconds before trying to boot my 
computer. (I wasn't aware the power had gone out.)  Since my computer 
has battery backup I was able to turn it on.  My router does not have 
battery backup.  The outage might not be the cause of the problem but it 
is too much of a coincidence.


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