Just installed Ubuntu, but cannot login...

[Mavrick]

After install (in a VMWare machine) of Ubuntu, I rebooted but not cannot login as Ubuntu always says that the home directory for my user is set to a directory that does not exist.

Is there something I can do about it??

 

[Nothinman]

If you haven't done anything yet I would just reinstall and see if that fixes it, it should have created your user's home directory on installation.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Hmm, interesting. Do what Nothinman said, try reinstalling. Make sure to take note of the user and password. Maybe you entered the wrong login info?

 

[gruven]

There was a bug with some of the installers (I don't know if they have fixed it) that if you didn't set your time zone (left it as UTC) then it wouldn't create the user or ask you for a password. Reinstall and set your time zone, and see what happens.

 

[stupidkid]

Can you login as root? Not graphically but through command line?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: stupidkid
Can you login as root? Not graphically but through command line?

Ubuntu doesn't setup a root account by default iirc. They work around the sudo command to give a normal user admin priviledges.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX

Originally posted by: stupidkid
Can you login as root? Not graphically but through command line?

Ubuntu doesn't setup a root account by default iirc. They work around the sudo command to give a normal user admin priviledges.

You can still log in as root on the command line with your su password.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX

Originally posted by: stupidkid
Can you login as root? Not graphically but through command line?

Ubuntu doesn't setup a root account by default iirc. They work around the sudo command to give a normal user admin priviledges.

You can still log in as root on the command line with your su password.

not if you can't log in!


you could try to single user boot it and create/chown your home directory.