SOLVED - Freeze after typing password and hit enter

[Oceanwatcher]

I installed Kubuntu on a laptop for a friend some time ago and things have been working pretty ok for a while. But today he called and told me that his wife can log in, but he can not. His login is the "admin" (sudo) login.

He can type his username and password, and then things freeze.

I have to go up there tomorrow (30 min drive on a dirt road), but just wanted to shoot a quick post to the forum before bedtime and hope some tip appears during the night.

Just started a burn of a new CD in case I need it.

This is not a general freeze problem or a freeze during install. It is a single user freeze. Also, he could log in fine in CLI (ctlr-alt F2).

[vinnywright]

Re: Freeze after typing password and hit enter

file permishons and or onership have ben changed in his /home account .......probebley frome using sudo on a kde app insted of kdesudo or kdesu........it's a comon prob .....BUT the solution eludes me at the moment..........you could use sudo adduser to make him a new acct. untill you get the fix............or try .... sudo adduser hisusername root ..........witch will add him to the root group .....the prob your having is from the .kde (hiden folder) geting it's permishons changed to root.........or one or more of it's sube directores.

VINNY

[ukchucktown]

Re: Freeze after typing password and hit enter

The easy solution is changing ownership and permissions on the ~/.kde directory. Let's say his login is jaunty. Normally this will do it...

chown -R jaunty:jaunty ~jaunty/.kde.

If that doesn't fix it, do chmod -R 775 ~jaunty/.kde.

[Oceanwatcher]

Re: Freeze after typing password and hit enter

I will have to check if any permissions has been changed (he has not logged in for some time). Going there in a few hours and bringing my own laptop so I have internet access at something else than the PC I am trying to fix.

[Oceanwatcher]

Re: Freeze after typing password and hit enter

Finally got up there (a bit further up in the jungle and found out that the problem was slightly different than the description here.

I could log on with my user/password and his wife could log on with hers. Actually, he could log on with his user/password too, but when the computer finished logging in, the keyboard did not respond. At all! Could not even get to a different console. But the mouse was working.

After some searching, I found the problem. He had somehow got the slowkeys activated and all I had to do was to disable it again. So if you experience this, check slow keys setting.

[kevinc]

Re: SOLVED - Freeze after typing password and hit enter

It is a good idea for each user to have their own username and not to use root, admin except when needed. This increases security of the system.

The default is not to allow root to login.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo