Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
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Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
I recently changed drivers to play cs go on linux mint 18.3 sylvia after that i couldn't log in to my main profile account which is the admin account i think i changed to NVIDIA driver to the recommend one i want to change it back to the default driver but im stuck on the guest session and it says Running on software rendering mode. I cant even type the wifi password to use it or even have access to the Administration Driver manager. Please help.
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Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
Reboot the computer and select advanced options from the grub menu then recovery mode.
When the recovery mode menu appears choose drop to root shell.
In the root shell enter
Check the results for any package name containing nvidia, except for nvidia-prime-applet, and purge them with
When the recovery mode menu appears choose drop to root shell.
In the root shell enter
dpkg -l|grep nvidia
Check the results for any package name containing nvidia, except for nvidia-prime-applet, and purge them with
apt purge package_name
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
The first command didnt work it says unknown option -1 and 5 other line that says type dpkg for help and stuff
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
The -l in dpkg -l is a lower case L
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
Ok then the 4 nvida lines showed up how do i purge them and not prime applet??
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
Ok i entered the first command and the nvidia packages showed up i typed in the second command to purge them and didnt work just an error i did "apt purge package_name"
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
With
Replace package with the actual name of the package.
apt purge package package package package
Replace package with the actual name of the package.
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
Do you know the package name? Im having trouble sending a picture. I have four of them and the word nvidia colored in red idk how to exactly type the command
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
What will happen if i remove the nvdia prime applet with this command sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-* to purge everything with the name nvidia
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
Not working says Reading package list...Error!
w:not using locking for read only lock file /var
E:couldnt create temporary file to work with
E:the package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened
w:not using locking for read only lock file /var
E:couldnt create temporary file to work with
E:the package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
Try
mount -o remount,rw /
first - it might be mounted read only Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
Ok uninstalled all of them tried to reinstall prime and says unable tp fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? But i think it did reinstall it also says 1 newly installed. Need to get 30.3 kb of archives after this operation 60.4 kb of additional disk space will be used
Err:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com
Temporary failure resolving packages.linuxmint.com
E:failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main ... ime-applet_ temporary failure resolving
Err:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com
Temporary failure resolving packages.linuxmint.com
E:failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main ... ime-applet_ temporary failure resolving
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
I couldnt reinstall the nvidia prime any other solutions?
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
well i deleted them and i still cant log in how do i change it back to its original source driver? any command to make a new user?? also i rather just uninstall and delete everything to start all over but i cant figure out how...
Re: Cant log in to my admin account stuck on Guest session HELP
You can try to add a new user with
Also it's difficult working in an environment where you can't copy/paste code and results so it might be better working booted to the live media.
adduser username
, but the graphics driver is system wide.Also it's difficult working in an environment where you can't copy/paste code and results so it might be better working booted to the live media.