Stuck on Stopping System V runlevel compatibility

Question

This is my first time to encounter this problem and I have not been using Ubuntu for a long time now, thus I am a complete newbie to this.

I tried doing Ctrl+Alt+F1 but I cannot login since every time I type at the password field no characters are being inputted or I just got the wrong username password.

A thorough steps on solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I've checked in French Ubuntu forums, unfortunately to no avail for me, and for some this did work:

You need to verify that your /home/$USER/.Xauthority file is not owned by root.

You can simply check that with ls -ld .Xauthority (assuming you are in the home directory) and revert it back with

sudo chown $SUDO_USER .Xauthority

Let me know if that helped. I had to reinstall from scratch.

Answer 2

I got the problem after I removed GDM. (Running 12.04 with Openbox.) I solved it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 to another console and reinstall it.

Should it realy be $SUDO_USER or am I supposed to replace it with my username for example? Well, it didn't work anyway. On the other hand, I didn't try very hard.

Answer 3

Use this command works just fine IMHO I had similar problem now its fixed.

sudo chown username:username /home/username/.Xauthority

Just put your username in place of username in the command.

Answer 4

At login: Ctrl+Alt+F1

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME

Ctrl+Alt+F7

Enter your password and login. Worked for me.