Explain to me how this isn't a bug? Jaunty works fine . . .
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Kees Cook" <k...@ubuntu.com> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:10 PM To: <anonymous_1...@hotmail.com> Subject: [Bug 456183] Re: Kubuntu won't accept my password > Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we > are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it > would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. > Please visit https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion > > ** Changed in: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > > -- > Kubuntu won't accept my password > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456183 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “kdebase-workspace” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gdm > > I'm new to Linux (this is my 4th or 5th day, and my first operating system > other than what Microsoft puts out), so walk me through any fixes nice and > easy. > > Using Ubuntu 9.10 beta Karmic Koala with the EXT4 un-encrypted file > system. Couldn't come up with a "package name", whatever that is . . . I > tried the 'apt-cache policy packagename' thingy, and it spat some kind of > error in my face saying it couldn't find a package name. If it's > important, let me know. > > I have installed Karmic onto an SD card, and that system is running > flawlessly. So there's nothing wrong with the disc I have etc. > > However, every time I install Karmic onto a hard drive, it won't accept my > password when I try to login or authorize something. I have tried about 16 > complete installs to date, and this happens every time. > > I'm using the option to use the whole hard drive; not sharing with another > OS. I thought the problem might have been the SATA hardware RAID setup I > have for my Windows install, because GRUB (versions 1 and 2) was throwing > a temper tantrum and refusing to install unless there was only one drive > in the system (separate problem, I know . . .). But > disconnecting/disabling the entire RAID array didn't change anything. > > Everything installs okay, but when I go to log-in to the graphical > interface, it won't accept my password. Once, I tried the shell-based > (text-only, whatever you call it) login, and there was no difference in > behavior. As you can imagine, over the course of 16 installs, I've become > very careful about writing the password down and entering it verbatim, so > please don't flood me with spam about Caps-Lock or a bad memory. > > Oddly enough, sometimes when I enter the password very slowly, it works. > Once I'm signed in, whenever I would try to do something that required > root privileges, it would ask for the password again, and it would be the > same story: enter it very slowly, and sometimes it would work. > > I've tried a couple different IDE hard drives (old stuff that I had lying > around), and they all do the same thing. I have not tried to install on > any other kind of hard drives (SATA, SCSI, etc.). As I said before, I have > had no trouble with my SD-card-in-a-USB-reader installation. > > I've tried changing the password using the install/boot CD. All seems to > work well at first, and it tells me that the password has been changed. > But when I try to log in, the new password doesn't work either. Once the > password has been changed, I can no longer get through by typing slowly - > the account is completely locked. In order to log in, I have to go back > out to the install/boot CD and create a new account, then go back to > typing the password slowly on the new account. > > On a couple of the installs, I tried having Karmic log in automatically on > boot. This works perfectly. However, when I do something which requires > root (drivers, etc.), it of course asks me for my password, and we're back > to square one. > > I suppose a guy could enable auto-login and use the install CD to assign > his username admin and root, and then he'd never have to worry about > passwords. But it doesn't address the problem, and doing this is a > security/stability nightmare. > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Tue Oct 20 03:14:07 2009 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 > Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu8 > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic > SourcePackage: gdm > Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 > -- Kubuntu won't accept my password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456183 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
