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[deltadan123]

So I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron this morning. Unfortunately something is wrong with the gui login and it cycles after each time I put my login name... Sooooo I can't get on linux anymore. Fortunately I have all my files backed up but I really don't want to reinstall the OS

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GUI cycle

[anonymous]

Can't you boot into single user to fix it?

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Harvey Mars

Re: GUI cycle

[deltadan123]

I can log in to the terminal and play around in there... but I have no idea what the problem would be or where to fix it. I'm not super talented with some of these things.

I found a forum with something similar that suggested fixing permissions and a couple files which I tried but that didn't work. I've got a help thread continued from someone else going at ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=355036)

Re: GUI cycle

[anonymous]

Yeah, but the 'help' thread is from Feb 2007.

I've used Solaris and Apple Darwin Unix (Mac OS), perhaps I can prod...

Your Linux log files are here:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-linux-gnome-system-log-viewer/

So, cd /var/log and do an 'ls -lat | head' then check those for an error message from the login GUI, or whatever odd that comes out (logs) during boot.

There's some interesting chatter here:

http://www.ubuntux.org/how-to-start-the-gui-from-the-prompt-screen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/47145

What is the acronym for your login GUI, try installing different ones (don't ask me how), and one report said to check for a full disk 'df -k'.

Harvey Mars

Re: GUI cycle

[deltadan123]

Hmmm some of those look promising ! I'll give it a try - reboot time. Thanks !