Ubuntu live cd asking for id and password..

I guess you are using the LiveCD? Can you boot to the desktop?

no the cd was sent by canonical on request
also i unable to boot upto desktop

after i see that all drivers and kernel are loaded
the very first screen i encounter is the one that ask for user id and password
which i am unable to crack

Have you tried using the 32bit version?

no i have not

but does this user id-password screen have to do something with its bit version if yes please let me know what i can do about it

anyway i would like to have a 64 bit version as it is much faster

Amit,

what you are experiencing is not normal at all. The LiveCD should not ask for userid and password.
I think it is better if you require another CD from Shipit, possibly the Alternate CD.
In the meantime, check during boot the messages on your screen (you must use ALT-F1), and please report back here any warning or error message.
Try also to boot in Safe Graphics Mode (its one of the boot options) and see if that works.

Amit, any success with the new CD?
I had exactly the same problem after downloading Ubuntu from the official site so I'm not sure
the problem is related to a bad CD.

no danyodin

i have not got new cd yet
i am in india
so cd dlivery might take 10 days more
i cant download iso as my connection get out many time

when i would get it and try it i would post related comment under this thread

amit, an option for downloading would be using bittorrent, were it will automatically resume if/when you get cut off. That way if you don't have a steady internet connection, you can still get it rather easily.

Best Regards,
Williamts99

thanks williams for your suggestion

Yes amit... I dont think canonical live cds wont ask for a password and id... I am also an Indian studying in bangalore... Are you sure its from canonical? because I am also using ubuntu ia 64 CD and its working fine.. If you want CDs badly... contact b.ghose head of ubuntu india local team at <email address hidden> and also shoot up a mail to ubuntu india mailing list, we ll help you out....
Cheers,
Bhavani Shankar.

hi there, here in spain and a few friends in germany experience the same problem. i hang about 5 days to solve it and tryed allmost everything to make it work, but no way.
i hope together we can find a solution.

geetings from south spain

Angel13

please tell me how to reset a user code and password on the ubuntu system
i changed it some time ago and cant remember what it is
pls respond to <email address hidden>

Wow, I almost forgot that I wrote something here.

Well, the problem was the hardware, exactly the RAM. After I changed the RAMs position on the motherboard, there was no problem anymore.

Ikdonoho
try to reinstall ubuntu from scratsh and use an easy passw.

first format / but not /home, and after reinstall you will have almost everything in its place again.

bye, I hope I could help you

I can confirm this. On some computers, when I boot from the CD on some computers I get the GDM login screen which says "User ubuntu will automatically login in 10 seconds" and it counts down. This does not happen all the time and is not a major issue.

I believe the username is ubuntu and the password is blank.

well i just had that issue with the 1st cd only
i have used almost 8-10 cd's now and all of them are working as they should

Shift-ctrl- F1
sudo passwd ubuntu

type a new password

Shift-ctrl-F7

now login with username ubuntu and your new password

We ran 100 machines through the LiveCD through PXE and had one that was exhibiting signs of this exact issue. All 100 machines were the exact same model. The date on the one machine that could not login was set to 12/27/2067. After the date was brought back to 2011, we were able to log in as normal.

I hope this helps others with this same issue.

for my Lenovo Thinkpad x61 I was able to shift to the shell with the CTRL-ALT-F1 key combo
used sudo passwd ubuntu to create a new passwd.