NOT LOGGING ME IN!

[uhohthisismo]

ok i dont know WHAT happened but this morning i turned on my computer and tried logging into my bea and it doesnt log me in. it keeps saying i need to input username and password eventhough i already did. it refuses to log me in. what do i do?

[clem]

edit /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default and remove the lines referring to mintDesktop and mintDisk.

Clem

[uhohthisismo]

where do i put that in?

i tried the "recovery mode" and i tried putting that in but it didnt do anything or give me any code to delete

[clem]

When you get to the login screen, hit CTRL+ALT+F1 and log in in the console. then edit the file with vi, or nano, or whatever console-mode text editor you're most familiar with.

Clem

[uhohthisismo]

Warning: unknown mime-type for "edit /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default" -- using application/*

Error: no write permission for file "etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default"

[clem]

I suppose you don't know how to use vi... ok let's remove the packages then:

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sudo apt-get remove mintdisk mintdesktop

[uhohthisismo]

srry clem im a real noob

i did the sudo apt-get remove mintdisk and it said "E: package mintdisk not found"
and then when i did sudo apt-get remove mintdesktop it said it found 0 files to be removed.

is there anyway i can just get my data out? i dont mind reinstalling it. itd be awsome if i could get it to work but ya

[clem]

Ok... let's try something else:

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sudo mv /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample

See if that works.

By the way, use CTRL+ALT+F1 to go to console from GDM, and CTRL+ALT+F7 to go back to the GDM login screen.

Clem

[uhohthisismo]

Command not found

[scorp123]

Command not found

What did you type in?

[uhohthisismo]

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sudo mv /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample

and it said

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command not found  /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default

[scorp123]

and it said

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command not found  /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default

Did you check the content of that directory?

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ls -al /etc/gdm/PostLogin/

If there is no file with the name "Default" then this error would be pretty much normal.

[clem]

No it wouldn't.. we're not trying to run Default, we're trying to run mv. It looks like you didn't type it correctly.

[scorp123]

No it wouldn't.. we're not trying to run Default

Ah yeah, silly me ... It should say something like No such file or directory in that case. Command not found however indicates he was trying to run a non-existing command ...

[uhohthisismo]

It looks like you didn't type it correctly.

i retyped it and it said the same thing

i did the ls thing and it said default.simple was there

[scorp123]

i retyped it and it said the same thing

Sorry, can't be. Can you please type again and show us here what you typed, word by word? You are mistyping something, or else the error message would be a different one.

[uhohthisismo]

ya i retyped everything yall said. when i did

ls -al /etc/gdm/PostLogin/

it found default.simple but not default.

and i typed

sudo mv /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample

and it still said COMMAND not found.

is there anyway i can use the live cd and get my data out? and then reinstall it? cuz this is weirding me out

srry for the problems guys

[scorp123]

sudo mv /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample

There is a slash missing. sudo mv /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample
Something else ... can you please give me the output of these commands:

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which sudo

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which mv

Thank you.