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Unable to login to Ubuntu after creating partition for windows
I've recently created a partition from Windows Disk Management Utility for Windows as 'New Volume (:F)' which was in 'Disk 0' but when I rebooted the system back I was unable to login to Ubuntu and ...
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Ubuntu works without nvidia but stuck at login screen with nvidia
I have Nvidia graphics card installed and the Ubuntu used to work without any issue till yesterday. Unfortunately, it is now stuck at the login screen. I switched to terminal mode (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and ...
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My ubuntu doesnt accept my login password! [duplicate]
I made a mistake by running some commands like:
sudo chown $USER:$USER ./
rm -r ./
because I was trying to own the directory and delete some stuff. So, once I run these command lines and rebooted, I ...
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login loop problem after installing nvidia graphics driver [duplicate]
i have tried adding nouveau blacklisting problem and I also tried it in ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, 14.04 but nothing worked for me.
but whenever I install the nvidia driver and restart, it gets into login ...
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Nvidia drivers Create Login Loop on 14.04
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 because the primary software I use for work depends on this version. The Nvidia-390 was installed and running fine, but the computer was slow (likely due to an i9 chip, as ...
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Cannot login to Ubuntu via either GUI or virtual terminal
When I try to login to Ubuntu 14.04 from the GUI, it flicks back to the login screen. Also, I am not able to login via guest session.
When I try to login via Ctrl+Alt+f1, it shows I have logged in, ...
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Stuck at the login page after running Matlab script [duplicate]
My system (Ubuntu 14.04) got stuck after I ran a Matlab script. So I powered off the machine and tried to restart. Initially, it showed some errors and once it came to the login page it redirected ...
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How to disable ssh login for all users except one?
I Have ubuntu server 16.04, running on localhost. I want to disable ssh login for all users except john. I have tried all answers and comments posted here, nothing works. For example
Match User !john
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Unable to login Ubuntu 14.04
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. Laptop was working normally, I did a restart and since then I cannot login. I get to the login screen, enter password, and then this message appears for a second and ...
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14.04 - Login screen stuck in glitchy loop [duplicate]
My computer, with Ubuntu 14.04 on it, will only boot to the login screen, after what looks to be a graphical glitch--the screen flashes with red-green-blue stripes and then goes black before the login ...
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Warning on Logon Screen - Ubuntu 16.04 and 14.04
I'm new on Desktop Engineering and i'm working on a project customizing a Ubuntu. I would like to know how to create a Warning before login that looks like the image below for Windows. I've been ...
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ubuntu 14.04 completely freezes during login
I use ubuntu 14.04. I am facing this problem right now. it freezes every time I want to login. ubuntu worked well for 1 year. no key combinations like alt+sysrq+k or alt+sysrq+REISUB are working. I am ...
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Can't login after AMD video driver installation
I installed AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 15.12 driver to Ubuntu 14.04.5.
And now I can't login: there is no any error, it tries to login and then return to login menu.
I tried to login via ...
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Why is anything I do as root temporary?
Long story short:
On this server I had lost the password to the server root account, as well as a secondary non-root account. Thus, leaving me powerless to change the non-root password (or to do ...
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My Ubuntu system stuck after i restored with Tar and Login
To day i backup my system with TAR.
cd /
tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --one-file-system /
And restore this backup file to new my VPS:
tar -xvpzf backup.tar.gz -C / --...
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Problem with Ubuntu password setting with numpad off [duplicate]
I've Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Today I've changed My password and it contains numbers, When I set the password the num lock of numpad keys was off. Now I cannot login. I tried pressing the same keys with num ...
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I can not log in, I'm in loop
I read many solutions but none worked for me.
I need some help, I have the xsession-errors registry
Already a week ago to install something, fglrx always worked well and everything worked normal but ...
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How to login under root in ubuntu-dektop on Ubuntu server 14.04
I am complete newbie to Ubuntu and Servers installation/tuning. But I faced with the necessity to get the VPN server for my python script.
I have chosen vultr.com as the provider and bought the VPN ...
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Command or script to get user login details of last 6 months
I need to get the details of the users logged in from last 6 months to analyze and to increase the cpu of my server. I'm tried the command last -a but it is not giving the complete results. Anyone ...
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Cannot start Chromium or Firefox 14.04
Yesterday, I was using Chromium just fine. When I closed it, it was OK. But, when I tried to start it again, it couldn't do so. I tried again several times, I also executed it from terminal, nothing ...
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Cannot login to Kubuntu after upgrading to 17.04 from 14.04
I am a Linux beginner, so please forgive mistakes and help me with easy explanations. I just upgraded Kubuntu on my Lenovo T440s Laptop to the current version, using do-release-upgrade. I am 95% sure, ...
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GLib-CRITICAL: g_environ_setenv: assertion 'value != NULL' failed - asked to log in twice
Anything wrong with my gnome-session?
I turned my computer on, logged in, waited a little while (10-20 seconds) and then was asked to log-in again. The second time it worked, but apport has asked me ...
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Unable to log in after changing permission of /usr/bin
I ignorantly changed the permission of /usr/bin to chmod 744 by using sudo chmod 744 /usr/bin while following a guide for something that I was working on. After I did that, I was unable to open the ...
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Unity Login Screen Replaced After GNOME Install
I installed the GNOME desktop environment through the Ubuntu Software Center on Ubuntu 14.04. It installed correctly, but the default login screen got changed to the GNOME login screen. Unity by ...
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Can not boot into NUC5CPYH (Celeron 3050) with ubuntu 14.04 (Kernel 3.19)
I am trying to make a TV tuner work and the instructions mentioned to compile custom kernel 3.19 with the provided patch. I have done the same and the system now recognizes the device perfectly as ...
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Change the login screen
I'm new to Ubuntu and I gotta say it's way much better than Windows. I just have a question, can I change the login screen like one of these? If you can teach me I would really appreciate it. I ...
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Can I delete /etc/nologin without ill effects?
/etc/nologin is a softlink which points to /var/lib/initscripts/nologin and /var/lib/initscripts/nologin does not exist.
This is causing a problem for my backup process which uses gsutil, a Google ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 login loop after apt-get upgrade
After apt-get upgrade and restarting Ubuntu 14.04, I encountered login loop problem. .xsession-errors revealed that ligGL error failed to open drm device and that permission was denied, failed to load ...
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After sudo passwd -e [user] , then I login getting an “Authentication token manipulation” error
I try to expire a password of a user, called student, within a root circumstance.However, When I run 'sudo passwd -e student' and login student, there is a error as below:
Junzuo:Linux Echo$ ssh ...
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Cannot login (GUI or ttyX) to Ubuntu 14.04 after update
I have used Linux/Unix in the past, however, I am comparatively new to Ubuntu.
We received a new PC with Ubuntu installed. I installed some software and did an upgrade. Since then, I am unable to ...
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After installing ubuntu 14.4 my computer goes to blank screen with curser then black screen with login line then blank screen again
Thats it,has worked on system before. I had a agp Video card when it was working I installed a new Asus ENGT220 1Gb video card with a fresh install of system, now I can't get pass user name without it ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Login Loop problem after appending .profile file in home folder
Ubuntu 14.04 get stuck when trying to login my desktop. The screen goes black and soon after that the login screen bounce back.
Actually i added a line in /.profile file in last boot-up export PATH= ....
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Ubuntu 14.04 login loop with nvidia proprietary driver
I have tried all solution advices on askubuntu platform. But no way to solve that login loop issue.
When I select the latest Nvidia proprietary tested driver (nvidia-367) , ubuntu stucks on login ...
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No login - Fat Client - Ubuntu Server
I want to build an Ubuntu Server that distributes images to clients over the network.
Clients must behave like Fat Client (Processing on the server instead of client).
All computers that enter in the ...
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Can't log into Ubuntu 14.04 after update, login loop, incorrect login in tty
My relatives updated their Ubuntu and couldn't log into it after that. After entering password the screen blinked to black and returned to the login screen. When I saw the screen there was an Ubuntu ...
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stuck in login ubuntu 14.04 after trying everything
I can't get past the login screen via GUI. After I enter the password, it takes me back to the same screen in 2 seconds. I don't see my usual background/wallpaper, just the stock purple screen. Things ...
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Can log in but get thrown out immediately
It sends me back to the login page.
I think it was after I did a software update yesterday.
I am using 14.04.
Grub2 or the BIOS has changed to boot my 2nd SSD first (I did not change this).
The issue ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Login Loop with additional monitor issue
I appear to be having a relatively common login loop error as described here Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop. In brief, after an login attempt, the screen blacks out for about 5 seconds, and returns ...
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Cannot change my password for ubuntu 14.04
I have followed this question To change password. But now I have issues when I open my Chrome browser and when I try to change password from 'Sysmtem Settings'.
As you can see the 'change' button is ...
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Login Loop ubuntu 14.04
My Ubuntu 14.04 is stuck when trying to login my desktop. The screen goes black and soon after that the login screen comes back.
I've tried ubuntu 14.04 login loop problem and Ubuntu gets stuck in ...
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14.04 Login loop - DMs don't work but gnome-session works from xterm - No Nvidia
Lots of posts related to login loop issues. However, none of the solutions work.
.Xauthority file has permissions -rw------- 1 mangouser mangouser
/tmp folder has permissions drwxrwxrwt 16 root ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Login Loop and no WiFi
Stuck in a login loop. Everytime I input my password, the screen flashes to a black screen for a second then back to the lock screen. Essentially its as if nothing happened.
I'm suspecting the issue ...
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Another 14.04 login loop problem
Upgraded desk top to 14.04 and encountered the login loop problem. Everything I've read says to login on the terminal but I can not do that either. It will say "login unsuccessful". For kicks I tried ...
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ssh login asking for password and returning Permission denied Please try again
I am using ubuntu 16.04 and i am trying to ssh to another ubuntu 14.04 server which are on the same LAN. I am executing ssh username@ip its asking for password and upon typing the valid password its ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 keeps on booting into terminal login screen
I have a dual-boot windows and ubuntu system. My pc is and acer aspire desktop computer. For some reason which I can not figure out yet my computer boots into the terminal login screen. I have tried ...
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can't login through ssh after ubuntu 14.04 upgrade
Ubuntu workstation (without monitor) was upgraded successfully to 14.04 and rebooted.
But I can't log in since then through ssh.
Is there any fix?
Upgraded using
do-release-upgrade
On successful ...
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Help! I can't login after upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04
After years of not upgrading to 14.04 I finally did it tonight. Everything went well until I tried logging in. When I try logging in using my usual username and password with the "Ubuntu (Default)" ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 automatic login doesn't work
In system settings I have turned on automatic login and /etc/lightdm/* files seems good, but after boot I get to Ubuntu desktop for a moment (about 1 second) and then it logged me off and I then must ...
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My ubuntu 14.04 is stuck in log-in loop when I try to log-in to Desktop. My login password does work at terminal but can not open the encrypted folder
I can mount the encrypted hard drive but can not access the encrypted home folder. When I try to login to my desktop, it dose process a few (2) seconds and goes back to login screen. How can I login ...
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i am unable to log into ubuntu via the gui
when i log in via terminal i'm able to log into my account sudo up and do everything i need to. when i start the gui i'm only able to log in with root but not my user account. when do attempt to log ...
