[PLUG] I can't login to my Ubuntu laptop anymore. It keeps looping at the login.

[NEIL]

Yes.  You can use a Linux Live CD to do this or a USB flash drive.
You'd just need to make sure that you switch your BIOS to boot off of it.

In addition to doing what they suggested, you could try to figure out 
what is going wrong with the configuration and try to fix it, but it 
could be more trouble than wiping it out and starting over.

Neil


On 10/16/2015 2:46 PM, Genaro Hernandez wrote:
> Hi. I would appreciate it if someone could help me with my issue. It's my
> only laptop and I really need it for my schoolwork.
>
> *The issue* is that something went wrong with my Ubuntu 14.04 because at
> the GUI login, I enter my password, it looks like it accepts it, then it
> says something went wrong, and finally returns me to the login.
>
> *I tried to* login with the shell but my password is not accepted.
>
> *Someone suggested* I do this:
>
> "boot into a live cd/dvd/usb and you'll have a working ubuntu desktop. use
> the file manager to mount the internal drive (it'll just be named by size,
> like "60GB drive") and copy off what you need. then reinstall like normal"
>
> Can someone tell me if that is good advice? If so, can you provide me with
> more relevant information (e.g. links to any web pages/videos)? You can let
> me know if I should just do some online searches myself. I did find this
> link on how to create a bootable usb stick on Ubuntu:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu.
>
> Thank you for all of your help.
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