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I can't access to my session
I try to log in my session but the login screen reappeared each time , the password is correctly entered.
NB: the guest session is accessible
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Can't login to my user
I was installing NVM using this command:
curl https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh
as explained in the github page https://github.com/creationix/nvm
It didn't work, so I ...
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Login screen on my desktop error
When I log in my Ubuntu 13.04 account, my login screen still shows up as my desktop background, making my computer slow. Recently, I made some changes when I log in, such as removing both "Guest ...
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When I enter password to login, it returns login desktop inspite of correct password [duplicate]
How to login my Ubuntu? I want to login to my Ubuntu desktop. When it is turned on and ask for enter password for specific user I add password keyboad and hit return key, but again it return login ...
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I consistently get two login screens
"... I consistently get two login screens!
I enter credentials correctly and am immediately presented with a second login screen (no errors). Authenticating against the second screen completes a ...
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Awesome WM Does Not Appear as a Login Option? [duplicate]
I am running 13.04, with the default Unity and lubuntu-desktop desktops. The LightDM login manager gives me both Unity and Lubuntu as desktop options and some variants on them but Awesome WM does not ...
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Unable to logged in to standard user account [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 on intel machine.
From last 2 days I am unable to logged in standard user (non root) account. Initially the Ubuntu gets booted and then it shows the login screen. Now ...
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Not able to login in ubuntu
I changed my etc/environment with path set for ORACLE_HOME and rebooted the system.
It created one more user as oracle in my login screen, now after a reboot I am trying to
login as usual but it is ...
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Cannot log into user account, can log into guest. (12.10) [duplicate]
after restarting my computer today I cant seem to log into my main user account but i can still log into a guest account (what im using atm). I get a log in prompt like usual but it gives me a quick ...
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Cannot select gnome shell when logging in anymore 12.04
suddenly the "GNOME" option when logging in to ubuntu disappeared.
I have absolutely no idea why. apt-get remove gnome-shell && apt-get install gnome-shell didn't have any effect.
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1answer
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LightDM not Behaving as Expexted
I seem to be having some odd lightdm behavioral issues. So far this what I have in my /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file:
user-session=gnome-classic
greeter-session=unity-greeter
...
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Why Ubuntu is freezing at the login screen?
I have windows 7 installed on my PC and I also have Ubuntu 12.10. When I choose to boot with windows 7 it starts just fine, but when I boot with Linux it freezes at the sign in screen.
Can anyone ...
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Won't let me log in after updating
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed alongside Windows 8 on a HP Pavilion g7 1303 (x64). I ran the update manager and selected everything and updated. Then I restarted the computer and when it comes to the ...
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Very slow startup after login screen with SSD: how to troubleshoot?
Background:
I was trying to solve a problem I had with Libreoffice and installed/uninstalled a couple of packages (it is a fresh install of 12.10 Quantal). I don't know if it is related but there is ...
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1answer
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Can't login to account on guest or standard
Thanks in advance for any help. Ubuntu 12.04
Up until recently my mother has been using the Guest Session when she logs on; now, the Guest Session will not login. When I try to login to it, it ...
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1answer
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My ubuntu system is asking login again and again when i even entered the correct login details?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 in Dell desktop. I am unable to login into my desktop.
when i enter my login details its just coming again to login page without entering into my dashboard? Please help me...
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Why can't I access my desktop after installing Lubuntu?
I installed Lubuntu 12.10 in my netbook through USB Drive. Now I cannot get access in my desktop after login. I can see only one thing on my screen.
Welcome to ubuntu 12.10(GNU/linux 3.5.0-17- ...
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1answer
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Logging in the New Created User Ubuntu12.04 lts
I just created an account with name rashmi and set its password. Then I restarted my system. When I log in to rashmi another screen appears for less than a second and then vanish and again the login ...
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Login Screen Cycles
After installing recommended updates and rebooting, I am stuck on the Login Screen. After entering my password, the screen goes black, and then I am returned to the Login Screen. I can login from the ...
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1answer
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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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Log in fails and returns to log in screen
I am running a very nearly fresh Gnome version of 12.10, with no particular tweaks or customisation. I performed an upgrade yesterday using
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
which completed ...
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Need restart lightdm at every startup - console login screen
Everytime I boot up my ubuntu 12.10, I get a black console screen.
I need to login in tty, and restart lightdm : sudo service lightdm restart
Then the GUI lightdm login screen appears as expected.
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Login password problem
I am using kubuntu 12.10.
My problem is when my kubuntu starts, in login screen it shows my name & a field for giving password (previously what i have choose for my account). But if at this ...
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How to login on X from tty1
I want to login to my account on tty7, i.e., the X-Server from tty1 after I say, restart lightdm. xdotool doesn't seem to work here. Does anyone know how to do this?
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Redirected to log in screen 12.10 [closed]
So, i installed ubuntu 12.10 in windows 7 and everything was running fine, i configured some stuff, installed some programs and registered to ubuntu one. nothing major.
today though i tried signing ...
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How To Reset To Old Login Screen Settings [ubuntu 12.10] [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add customized wallpapers so they appear in the dynamic unity greeter?
How do I switch from LightDM to GDM?
When I Tried To Change Default Ubuntu Given ...
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Mouse lagging on 12.10 login page
I just installed ubuntu 12.10 and it seems the mouse lags/is choppy (it will momentarily stick to the page and then appear where I had gestured to instantly every half second or so) on the login page. ...
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1answer
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Can't startup as login screen requests a name and password - but I have not set one up yet?
I am trying Ubuntu on an XP machine. Downloaded burnt to DVD - all good, rebooted and Ubuntu started from DVD. I clicked TRY and it then came up with a login.
What name and password do I use the ...
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1answer
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12.04 Login gone wrong
I seem to have a fault in the login procedure somewhere. When I boooted up I found that if I selected Guest I could use the computer. If I selected my administrator account I was taken straight to ...
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How to log in by typing username & password on 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I require users to also enter their usernames upon login?
When I was using Ubuntu 12.04, I had an option on that placed a box on the login screen that would ...
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1answer
213 views
Unable to login - account disabled
Ah, recently, I've been unable to login to my main master account, as it would return me to the login screen after entering my password. Thinking I could just delete the account and make a new one, I ...
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Login not working after upgrade to 12.10 [closed]
I just upgraded to 12.10 from 12.04, and now my login isn't working. When I log in with the incorrect password, it tells me that it's wrong, but when I log in with the correct password, it just brings ...
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Cannot log in to Ubuntu after changing /etc/fstab
I was recently trying to change my /home directory to a new hard drive using these instructions.
I got to the step where I have to change the fstab file and I think what I did was I set the location ...
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Cycles through black screen on login after changing password
On my laptop, I forgot the password to my Ubuntu partition, so I logged into the root command shell on the recovery start up option in GRUB so that I could change the password.
On my first attempt to ...
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2answers
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How can I log in to a hidden user?
After some research, i found that you can make specific users hidden by using terminal and changing their ID to below 1000. I've done this for one of my users but now I can't login to that account. My ...
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After nvidi updates from Ubuntu-X-Swat X-Updates, Can't login [closed]
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04. I added the Ubuntu-X-Swat X-Updates repository and ran
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
I blindly pressed ok (stupid I know!) and then restarted. Now I can't ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Black screen log in 1minute of waiting?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04
When I turn on my computer from a previous Shut Down, it loads the boot loader and then into Ubuntu 12.04, I can see for a brief time the Ubuntu logo and the 5 dots, but ...
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1answer
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Unable to login as another user after upgrading 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS
I have two partitions on my sony laptop , 4 GB for OS and rest for /home dir ofcourse with some amount left for swap.
I have upgraded ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS
In my 10.04 installation ,before ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu 12.04 not booting to a display manager or login manager
When I boot up my computer with Ubuntu install on it, it's keeps booting and booting forever. It loads the boot screen but it doesn't boot up.
The only way to log in is to press Ctrl+Alt+F2, then ...
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2answers
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logon screen wont accept details, but terminal does?
My Ubuntu machine has suddenly started asking for a username and password when it starts up but does not accept the details I enter. When i go into terminal however, it seems to work fine. I have ...
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Can't log-in anymore
I installed Ubuntu x64 12.04 Desktop LTS on my new laptop three days ago.
Of course when I installed it I did an "apt-get upgrade" and a "apt-get update". I modified the .bashrc file to add some ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu 12.04 - After release-upgrade from 11.10 - no more root login?
Question: I did do-release-upgrade on Ubuntu 11.10.
Now, I have Ubuntu 12.04, and I can login as a normal user, but not as root.
On 11.10, I could login as root without problem.
I checked on the ...
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1answer
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Login screen - set default user
On login screen i have two options: my default user (let's say User1) and "Other User". When i work as "Other user" and make "Log out", on logon screen the 'active' one is "Other User". I wish that ...
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How do I get LightDM to allow language selection at login? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I set the login manager to enable change languages at login?
On my login screen, I don't see the option for changing the language which will be displayed when I ...
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How can I disable automatic login on a LiveUSB?
I've just made myself a persistent LiveUSB, running Ubuntu 12.04, and I've immediately found a problem - It logs you in automatically as root, and I don't need this since I'm going to keep files and ...
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Get rid of Kubuntu without logging in
I recently installed Kubuntu, but I did not know that it would replace the current login screen and splash screen with it's own variants. I do not know how to login with the KDE login screen. It does ...
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7answers
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Login screen loops unless you login as Guest
I am running a VMWare Player with a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangloin as Guest on my Windows 7. Sometimes I get the shutdown blue screen error in Windows, this time it happened when I was running the ...
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1answer
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Login crash loop
After about the second/third batch of updates on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04, I end up getting stuck in an infinite login loop: I enter my password, screen goes black and shows me the end of the ...
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2answers
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Default User Id at Login different from User Name in Terminal Shell
During the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installation, I was prompted to enter a user name and password, so that a corresponding account could be created and set up for login. I replaced the one that was provided ...
