Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locked out of Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:21:29 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: Jon Reynolds wrote: Funny think happened to me last night. I turned my computer on, as I always do, booted up Ubuntu, got to the log in screen, entered my password and it refused me! Said it failed to authenticate! Tried several tim

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locked out of Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Avi Greenbury
Jon Reynolds wrote: > Funny think happened to me last night. I turned my computer on, as I > always do, booted up Ubuntu, got to the log in screen, entered my > password and it refused me! Said it failed to authenticate! Tried > several times to ensure I was typing correctly, but no. It wo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locked out of Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Avi Greenbury
Sean Miller wrote: > This might sound really patronising, but there's no chance that your > keyboard is playing up is there? > > So when you type "ubuntu" you get "uuntu" or similar? > > Happened to me some time ago with a website, and I was convinced I'd > been locked out... in reality, it was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locked out of Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:44:11 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > This might sound really patronising, but there's no chance that your keyboard is playing up is there? > > So when you type "ubuntu" you get "uuntu" or similar? > > Happened to me some time ago with a website, and I was convinced I'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locked out of Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Juan J.
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 09:44 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > [...] > Happened to me some time ago with a website, and I was convinced I'd > been locked out... in reality, it was a duff "9" key which needed to > be hit VERY hard to make it work :-) I was thinking about that... specifically about a wirel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locked out of Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Sean Miller
This might sound really patronising, but there's no chance that your keyboard is playing up is there? So when you type "ubuntu" you get "uuntu" or similar? Happened to me some time ago with a website, and I was convinced I'd been locked out... in reality, it was a duff "9" key which needed to be

[ubuntu-uk] Locked out of Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Jon Reynolds
Hi Folks, Funny think happened to me last night. I turned my computer on, as I always do, booted up Ubuntu, got to the log in screen, entered my password and it refused me! Said it failed to authenticate! Tried several times to ensure I was typing correctly, but no. It would not log me (or my