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How can I get back to a login screen after a freeze?

I have to manually shut down and to enter my SDA crypt pass and my user pass over again. How do I force the poweroff without having to hit the power button, or get back to a login screen. Nobody has ...
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PATH problem with my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I installed Java in my Ubuntu and after than I am unable to log in my system through GUI but I am able to log through terminal and its showing following errors: -bash:/etc/profile:line 7:syntax error ...
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Cant log in to gui ,X is broken

Note to others if you just want a summary of the problem skip down to summary. This first part is going to be slightly long and hopefully entertaining. As in, that is screwed up! but there might be ...
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How do I use a text-only interface to log in? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I boot to a command line interface instead of a GUI? I am running Ubuntu 12.10. When my computer boots, I want to log into my computer only using the CLI, not the ...
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Asus eee pc x101ch stuck at command line login

So I recently got the Asus EEE PC x101CH but came into a problem when updating to 12.10 (all variants of Ubuntu and Mint 14). The install went fine but when it come to login in it get stuck at the ...
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How to go to login screen with terminal

I want to make a simple script to go to the login screen and sleep the display on 11.10, as I find the login screen much prettier than the 'lock screen' prompt. However, I cannot find a single ...
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Getting to virtual terminal with Keytouch overriding Fn keys [closed]

I have a Chromebook running Ubuntu that I just broke. I had everything on the internal harddrive for the computer, but ran out of space, so I decided to move my home partition onto a memory card that ...
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Administrator user session only shows a terminal

Weird problem: After upgrading to 11.10 (and I am sure that I worked with it for couple of days). We had a power failure, and now, when open the computer, what I get is a screen, with a scrollable ...
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The terminal is shown when shutting down or logging out

When I shut down my system or log out the terminal (the one I reach with Ctrl Alt + F7) is sometimes shown before the login screen appears or before the computer is shut down. Is there a way to stop ...
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Disable auto-login from the CLI

After successfully installing Ubuntu and logging in to the Unity desktop, I followed the prompts to enable the proprietary display drivers. After rebooting, the Unity desktop is now entirely ...
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How do you start-up in the login screen with Num Lock on? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen? I use numbers in my password and would therefore like to start Ubuntu with Num-Lock enabled. This would also be ...