Password Problem

[SCBrazil]

THis is really a Koala problem but nobody over there has been able to solve it for me. I've been using XP for a week and am not happy about it. Just thought somebody over here may have some ideas.
Thanks

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3108086.0

[lmilano]

Re: Password Problem

I concur with the last suggestion from Kubicle in that thread. It sounds as if the home directory is either full, or not found at all. Can you boot from a live CD and check for that ? Is /home in a separate partition?

Here is how to check. In the liveCD, you should see, in dolphin, all existing partitions on the left. Click on them, one by one, to access them (mount them). Then, in a konsole, type "df -h". And please post the results here. Also, please post the contents of /etc/fstab from the root parition of the hard drive. Finally, please show us the output of "sudo blkid".

One more question, if you choose the option, in the liveCD, to "boot from the hard-drive", does that work at all? I guess it won't, because you have several partitions, given that WinXP is there, too.

Let's see how it goes.

[SCBrazil]

Re: Password Problem

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 486M 2.4M 484M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
tmpfs 486M 2.4M 484M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
tmpfs 486M 0 486M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 486M 104K 486M 1% /var/run
varlock 486M 0 486M 0% /var/lock
udev 486M 148K 486M 1% /dev
tmpfs 486M 12K 486M 1% /dev/shm
rootfs 486M 19M 467M 4% /
/dev/sr0 696M 696M 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 672M 672M 0 100% /rofs
tmpfs 486M 72K 486M 1% /tmp
/dev/sda3 9.7G 2.3G 6.9G 25% /media/disk
/dev/sda2 9.7G 7.9G 1.3G 87% /media/disk-1
/dev/sda5 46G 39G 7.7G 84% /media/disk-2
/dev/sda1 9.4G 8.8G 597M 94% /media/disk-3
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[SCBrazil]

Re: Password Problem

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="7C64603A645FF57C" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="48c70fbf-379e-49ef-a60c-219b35fe753f" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda3: UUID="91f68273-da41-492f-9c56-a5b8ad964ff6" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda5: UUID="9C0A-013F" TYPE="vfat"
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[SCBrazil]

Re: Password Problem

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=48c70fbf-379e-49ef-a60c-219b35fe753f / ext2 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[Snowhog]

Re: Password Problem

So you installed 'without' opting for a /home partition? From what you've posted, you installed the entire OS in a single partition. Is that the case?

[SCBrazil]

Re: Password Problem

I don't really know the correct answer Snowhog. What I 'think' I did was to partition my HDD into four.
Onto one I installed (ntfs) XP, the second (ext2) was used for a Portuguese version of Jaunty to get my Brazilian friends hooked, the third (ext2) was originally Jaunty in English and got upgraded to Koala. The fourth partition was a FAT32 to store media files.
Hope that info helps and answers your question.

[sithlord48]

Re: Password Problem

So you installed 'without' opting for a /home partition? From what you've posted, you installed the entire OS in a single partition. Is that the case?

it does seam to be that way.

i read the first portion of the post and i really seams like an out of space kind of issue, however looking at your df -h output you seam to be using very little of your linux partition (on that booted system), are these commands run from the install your having issues with? if not what /dev is your affected system on , (although they all seam to have enuff space to log you in).

can you log in with that user from a tty session? if so then your issue is not related to the amount of space you have free on that disk. and it becomes time to try something else.

[kubicle]

Re: Password Problem

@SCBrazil:
Did you run 'df' from a livecd?
The output seems to suggest so. (you can get a more useful output when running the actual installation, you can use recovery mode or console login if you can't log into KDE)

Also the /etc/fstab seems to refer to /dev/sda2 as the root partition, which is the 9.7 Gb partition you said was for the Portuguese Jaunty (and not the one you have issues with? the 9.7 Gb /dev/sda3). Is this the /etc/fstab from which installation (/dev/sda2/etc/fstab or /dev/sda3/etc/fstab if using a livecd to troublehoot). Or are you booting into the portuguese Jaunty?




Side note:
You don't need to install english/portuguese versions separately, you can add languages to an installed version and create (for example) users with portuguese and english languages

[SCBrazil]

Re: Password Problem

Yes, I did run df from a livecd. How do I run it from recovery mode or console login?

My HDD is 80GB. If I remember correctly I allocated 10gb for each OS (XP, Kub Portuguese and Kub English), I can't remember which version of Kubuntu I installed first, English or Portuguese.

[SCBrazil]

Re: Password Problem

The Portuguese version of Jaunty boots okay but does not require a password.

[lmilano]

Re: Password Problem

Yes, I think this clears up the disk space issue, you definitely have enough space!.

In the other thread, you mentioned:

title Linux ENGLISH
uuid 48c70fbf-379e-49ef-a60c-219b35fe753f
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=48c70fbf-379e-49ef-a60c-219b35fe753f ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
quiet

This matches sda2:
/dev/sda2: UUID="48c70fbf-379e-49ef-a60c-219b35fe753f" TYPE="ext2"

In that partition, you have over 1gb to spare, so ...

I wonder if you have a corrupted filesystem. ext2 is not as safe as ext3 or ext4, since it lacks journaling. You may try, from the live cd, to run "sudo e2fsck -p /dev/sda2" to repair any damage. Maybe that will do?

If you can boot in the linux version, even if it takes a lot of tries, you can run df -h there, and show the fstab from that boot (showing fstab from the livecd is useless for this, since it shows the filesystem of the live session).

Good luck!

[SCBrazil]

Re: Password Problem

I tried the "sudo e2fsck -p /dev/sda2" from livecd. It did seem to repair some things but didn't solve my problem.
I got into my Koala version after dozens of tries. There is a button at the bottom left of the password screen that gives the options of 'Default', 'KDE' and something else. The KDE option got me in.
Here are the results of df -h.

ian@PC-IAN:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 9.7G 7.9G 1.3G 87% /
udev 486M 244K 486M 1% /dev
none 486M 88K 486M 1% /dev/shm
none 486M 192K 486M 1% /var/run
none 486M 0 486M 0% /var/lock
none 486M 0 486M 0% /lib/init/rw
ian@PC-IAN:~$

Sorry but I cannot find the GD /etc/fstab file.

[SCBrazil]

Re: Password Problem

What if I download the Koala version, burn to CD and install over my current version? Will it wipe out my current config and files?

[sithlord48]

Re: Password Problem

What if I download the Koala version, burn to CD and install over my current version? Will it wipe out my current config and files?

from the look of your df output you don't use a seperate /home so , it would wipe out all your stuff(on that partition), unless you can install with out formating / .i have never tried to install with out formating / so i can't say one way or another if its "required" durring install.