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Unable to login ubuntu 14.04, speech dispatcher disabled

Asked by Van Nguyen

Hi,

I have been using ubuntu dual boot alongside Windows 10. Suddenly today I am unable to login to ubuntu, after keying in my password it just flashed very quickly a black screen for maybe half a sec and led me to login screen again.

The black screen said:
"speech dispatcher disabled: edit /etc/default/speed-dispatcher
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules
Please use 'dmesg" to find out why"

I have been attempting to download VirtualBox 1-2 days before but always failed. Does VirtualBox cause this problem and how do I solve this?

Thanks in advance!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You can uninstall speech-dispatcher if you like.

Does the system eventually boot as normal?

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Van Nguyen (tuongvan) said : 		#2

Hi, thanks for answering. How do I uninstall without logging in? As it doesn't let me log in at all. The system can boot and there is no error until the login page appears. Only when I enter my password does the black screen appears and it redirects me back to the login page again.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Press CTRL + ALT + T and login there.

If the system starts looking like it will uninstall key packages, report them to us and we can advise

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

You can use ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to a virtual console (text-mode only).
On the login prompt enter your user name and press the enter key, and on the password prompt enter your password (no echo!) and press enter. To log out type exit, and to return to the GUI press ctrl-alt-F7

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Van Nguyen (tuongvan) said : 		#5

Do i use ctrl-alt-f1 at the login screen?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Yes, F1. Sorry, not T

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Van Nguyen (tuongvan) said : 		#7

No worries. I pressed them but nothing happened ;'( any idea why?
Thanks!

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Van Nguyen (tuongvan) said : 		#8

Hi, I have successfully removed speech- dispatcher but now, I still have the black screen with "Starting SANE network scanner server: saned. Restoring resolver state"

How do I resolve this?

Thanks!

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#9

There are reports that such behavior can be caused by wrong ownership of config files.

Can you now log in with a virtual console (ctrl-alt-F1)?
What output do you get for the command

sudo find $HOME ! -user $USER

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Van Nguyen (tuongvan) said : 		#10

Hi, thanks for answering. Nope there is still no effect pressing ctrl-alt-f1.
The command above seems to show all the files in /home/tuongvan (tuongvan is my user name)

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#11

Then run:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME
sudo reboot

Should be OK then.

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Van Nguyen (tuongvan) said : 		#12

Oh i can login now :O

Thank you! But can i ask what happened actually?

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Van Nguyen (tuongvan) said : 		#13

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#14

Possibly running GUI applications using sudo.