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Sat Jul 12 12:52:53 IST 2008

Gutsy to Hardy - upgrade hiccups



So I decided to upgrade to Hardy after doing a Wubi install on a couple of machines. With some gotchas of course.

I couldn't login. Not even as root. It wouldn't even ask for a password, but straightaway said "login failed" (on the console) and "authentication failed" (gdm).

That seemed like a PAM problem and it was. My encrypted HOME setup uses pam_encfs which had a problem loading into PAM.

The fix : a recompile, but after the patch mentioned in this bug.

Also, my network profiles stopped working - which turned out to be because of sudo. Adding a 'env_keep=NETSCHEME' to the Defaults in sudoers fix that too.

Posted by gera | Permanent link | File under: tricks | [ hide comments ]
BTW we have had really bad experience with wubi installs. If you install in windows partition, and if there is unsafe shutdown, like power failure for example, the ubuntu failed to startup after wards, complaining file locked or something. The solution we found was to run chkdisk, but it deleted the file! :-)
Amit Upadhyay, 12.07.2008, 10:35h #
Swati had this problem too where Ubuntu failed to start cleanly. The problem is NTFS. The boot console on Ubuntu told us what to do.

The solution was to boot into windows and do a clean shutdwown. Everything worked well after that.
Gera, 13.07.2008, 05:00h #
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