I'm sure there are better suggestions. But, if it were me I would boot from your install media, mount the hard drive, and work with it that way?
If I didn't have my install media, I would create a new one by downloading an ISO and use unetbootin to write (burn) it to USB. But, that environment might be limited to fixing config files, not running commands to reinstall things. (I think you can do chroot to make that disk appear to be what you're running from, and make commands execute against those config files. Someone would have to guide you on that.). On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Pat Brand <brando3...@gmail.com> wrote: > At boot up today, I received a system error message. My desktop looked ok, > but I had no menu along the left side of the screen. I googled the > problem, found some solutions, but have two issues at this point: > 1) I need to get into a terminal screen to write the relevant commands, > because supposedly the issue of missing menu items is not unusual. And I > could probably do the fix if I could access a terminal, but can't using > ctl/alt/T. > But 2) I can't access a terminal, because the alternate command to do it, > ctl, alt., F1, requires me to input my username and password,.....but I > can't remember them. > > I found some solutions in Google, but they don't seem to work. > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated (I'm fairly new to Linux > (Ubuntu), so not really familiar with all the command, etc. > > Thanks! > > Georgia & Pat > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >
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