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

Genaro Hernandez genaro at pdx.edu
Sat Oct 17 02:07:24 UTC 2015


Thank you Neil.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:06 PM, NEIL <neil at aliens.la> wrote:

> 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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