Update: My co-worker taught me the magic of chroot. I mounted my hard drive after booting off the thumb drive and then did ...
cd <MOUNT_POINT> sudo chroot . And was then able to add a user to my install using adduser. I *can* successfully log in as that user and then su - to my regular user. But I can't seem to figure out how to run gconf-cleaner since it gives me a "cannot open display" exception no matter what I export the display to. But if I run "sudo gconf-cleaner" it runs fine. But I don't know what file I'm cleaning as the results aren't clear at all as to what it operated on. But I still can't log in as my regular user. I'm getting ready to just copy my files over to the new user I created and start over with system configuration with this new user and eventually delete the other. But I would *much* rather know how to fix this issue and get my old user back. -- G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540774 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
