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[deltadan123]

So I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron this morning. Unfortunately something is wrong with the gui login and it cycles after each time I put my login name... Sooooo I can't get on linux anymore. Fortunately I have all my files backed up but I really don't want to reinstall the OS

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Re: GUI cycle

[anonymous]

Yeah, these things take persistence.

You need to find out how to start the GUI after logging into Unix in single-user mode. Simply executing the necessary script might well result in an error message indicating what is wrong.

Hmmm, after getting into single user root, you might want to type 'init 3' to proceed into multi-user mode, which might well bring up the login GUI.

Or, heavy duty, run a process trace. Google for the loose words: linux strace, first try 'man strace' from the command line.

cupsd is Common UNIX Printing System (daemon), which you could've figured out with a simple Google. It's not the problem. I never heard of apparmor. It's summarized here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor

It sounds like a strict security tool that could be the problem, so you might want to disable it.

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http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux/topics

Ubuntu Linux

http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup/

Linux Users Group

Please feel free to post any questions about any distro based on Linux and/or BSD that you may have. New members are moderated for a short period of time, so please wait for your posts to be approved.

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Harvey Mars

Re: GUI cycle

[anonymous]

Oh, I forgot to say that to search the groups, including the one you named, search for Subject 'login'. Then plod through the results.

Wrotsa Wruck!

Harvey Mars

Re: GUI cycle

[deltadan123]

Hey ! So that error message I found dealing with apparmor, I tried a few of the fixes / changes people had suggested - I didn't think it worked but then this morning after a fresh boot everything worked ! Not exactly sure what the deal is, but I'm super pleased. Thanks so much for your help ! I highly doubt I would have found the messages or solved the problem without it.

Cheers :-D