Re: [tlug] Help with Mint

[Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@example.com>]

On 2015/06/26 0:29, Bruno Raoult wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@example.com 
> <mailto:nyuwa@example.com>> wrote:
>
> You may try:
> CTRL-ALT-F1 (which should give you access to a text console)
>
> Then login, and type "sudo adduser testuser"
> testuser being a chosen username.
>
> Then try to login with your new user (CTRL-ALT-F7 to come back to 
> graphical interface).
>
> If CTRL-ALT-F1 does not give you a terminal at first, you have a real 
> trouble.
Thank you.
But I cannot make it work.
Ctrl+Alt+F1 => I get the console
"sudo adduser xxx => I am asked for a password.
However, neither anything entered as a NEW password, nor the prior 
password is accepted.
It says "incorrect password"
Nothing else happens.
When I press enter, there is something about starting a virtual machine 
(VM Player, but at 4 am I am too tired to write all that down ...)
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del   WILL logout and restart the computer - which it 
did not on the black screen.

"SOMETIMES" - not always - I get in the upper left corner "Applications 
/ Places".
But going in there in an attempt at creating a new user, or changing the 
language etc., produces just a flicker of the screen.

Everything else will have to wait until tomorrow (today) night ...
Thomas