I'm writing regarding my Dad's installation of Kubuntu. First off, let me say that he started with an install of Ubuntu 6.06. We upgraded him to 6.10, then 7.04. I then installed the KDE/Kubuntu stuff because I thought it would be easier for him and he likes KDE fine.
The problem is this. Recently (not sure how recently, he just told me about it and said it's been doing this "for a while.") when the system boots and brings up the login screen, he is able to just hit "enter" instead of entering his password. I re-set his password, and it still does this for both his login and mine...no password required at all!
The other thing is that none of the "quit" options work: Logout just causes the system to hang with a blank screen; Restart does the same thing; same with Turn off. He's now started just hard re-booting (holding the power button until the machine powers down, then pusing the power button). I know this isn't good for the file system and I'm running e2fsck on the partitions even as I write this.
I tried re-installing the Kubuntu package, but that seemed to have no effect on these symptoms.
Any ideas/help/suggestions appreciated.
The problem is this. Recently (not sure how recently, he just told me about it and said it's been doing this "for a while.") when the system boots and brings up the login screen, he is able to just hit "enter" instead of entering his password. I re-set his password, and it still does this for both his login and mine...no password required at all!
The other thing is that none of the "quit" options work: Logout just causes the system to hang with a blank screen; Restart does the same thing; same with Turn off. He's now started just hard re-booting (holding the power button until the machine powers down, then pusing the power button). I know this isn't good for the file system and I'm running e2fsck on the partitions even as I write this.
I tried re-installing the Kubuntu package, but that seemed to have no effect on these symptoms.
Any ideas/help/suggestions appreciated.
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