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no login... Ubuntu 10.04 changing simple-greeter

Asked by Anthony Hual

Hello,

I am fairly new to linux. I have 10.04 and I was trying to change what the simple-greeter file looked like when I logged in with a theme I had downloaded. I overwrote the old simple-greeter file with the new one and then logged off and I never got a login box. The login screen appears but no box to log in at.

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Best Daniel Dräs (g-kar) said : 		#1

TRy pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1. This should get you to a terminal session. Login here and fix/undo the changes to the simple-greeter file. With Ctrl-Alt-F7 you should get back to the graphical login screen.

Worst case reboot between.

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Anthony Hual (blufirenator) said : 		#2

How do I undo the changes? I deleted the original greeter file and replaced
it with the new one

On Oct 8, 2010 5:21 PM, "Daniel Dräs" <email address hidden>
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> Your question #128489 on Ubuntu changed:
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> Daniel Dräs proposed the following answer:
> TRy pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1. This should get you to a terminal session.
> Login here and fix/undo the changes to the simple-greeter file. With
> Ctrl-Alt-F7 you should get back to the graphical login screen.
>
> Worst case reboot between.
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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

New to Ubuntu: read the Ubuntu Manual, it's very informative: http://ubuntu-manual.org/
Click on the "download Button" to download the latest PDF version.
The online help https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/index.html

Relax and fun:
http://planet.ubuntu.com/ and Full Circle Magazine http://fullcirclemagazine.org/

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Anthony Hual (blufirenator) said : 		#4

Thanks Daniel Dräs, that solved my question.