Changed Font Prevents Login - reverse it?

You can boot to liveCD and chroot to the installed OS. You can then change whatever you changed from there.

Did you installed Ubuntu inside Windows partition (Wubi) ?

Hiya,

Yes, I installed it as a directory on the root of my NTFS drive: C:\ubuntu using wubi

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Hi Dennis,

I'd try booting in recovery mode and trying to reset your fonts from shell. Since this isn't really a Wubi-specific modification, I'll direct you back to the main Ubuntu questions. If you can't boot in recovery mode and you need to chroot into Wubi (but I doubt it) then I can help you with that. I'll subscribe to the question so just ask if you need it.

Good luck.

Hi Dennis,

I just reread and see you can't boot in recovery mode. So maybe this is a Wubi issue after all.

Can you confirm which release you are on. You said v10, is that 10.04 or 10.10. If it's 10.04 then there has been a recent grub update that is causing issues. In that case look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1639198 (Problem #2, Solution #1 and then Permanent Fix after that)

If not post back more info including release, and full description of your boot up steps. Thanks

@bcbc: Sorry bcbc, I read too fast...
@Dennis:
1-Could you provide exact error message ?
2-At boot, press <Space> key to get Grub menu (if you don't have it) and choose second line (recover mode). Then have a look at used preference window on font.
An erroneous font should prevent you to login successfully. After you enter login/password, the desktop could start and fails, giving hand back to login screen. You should reach at least login screen (if you don't use direct login).

@ delance, I think it was me reading too fast :) I think you're right that it's a wubi issue - I guess we'll leave it up to Dennis to clarify.