[Durham] Help

[A Pearson]

Hi Barry

Thanks for your help. Yes it is a desktop as I find them more flexible and they last longer. Being retired I do not need portability
No it was not the Lubuntu problem as I checked the keys and they were putting out what was on the label.  I had used a special character , £, on the first install but took this out subsequently when it did not appear on the Mint virtual keyboard.

On the boot loader I got caught on this about ten year ago with SUSE when I used to come to the group so I know now the problem and try to avoid it. I had not seen any way round this but if you have an article and its not too much bother to locate it then it would be worth knowing about. 

Regards
Alan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barry Titterton 
  To: durham at mailman.lug.org.uk 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:36 AM
  Subject: Re: [Durham] Help


  On 26/04/16 17:11, A Pearson wrote:
  > Hello
  >  
  > Mint Cinnamon 17.3 64 bit from LXF 207 Feb 16
  >  
  > Its been a long time since I came to the group as most of the talk was
  > way above my head and I use desktops not laptops as they are easier to
  > modify so that was another reason.
  > I hope I have got the posting right as its many years since last time.
  >  
  >  
  > Installed Mint OK but it will not recognise password or username which I
  > had installed a few minutes earlier.
  > Typing them in correctly  with correct case several times just gave the
  > message  that either wrong names had been entered or the case was wrong.
  >  
  > I have re installed four times now booting on to a clean HDD and no
  > mistake has been made.  During install I went through the process of
  > getting Mint  to identify the keyboard which is a Microsoft business
  > model of British format.
  >  
  > It is on its own drive dual booted from the BIOS for either the Linux or
  > Win 7 drives.  I do not use the Grub bootloaders etc as experience shows
  > that if you remove Linux you lose access to Windows and have to start
  > all over again.
  > I  am quite proficient with windows PC's but relatively new with Linux
  > having tried a couple of distros in the last ten years but now wish to
  > make a determined effort with Mint.
  > .
  > Hope you can advise so I can move on.  Found nothing definite on Google
  > which was mainly people losing their passwords which is not this case.
  > Thanks in anticipation that you may be able to help me with something
  > not too complicated.
  >  
  > Regards
  > Alan.
  > 
  > 
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  Hi Alan,

  Is this problem with a desktop machine?

  This can also be a problem with Lubuntu as well, so Mint may have
  accidentally picked up the same bug.

  With Lubuntu's bug you can select any language at installation but on
  first boot the newly installed system always reverts to a US keyboard
  layout. Therefore if you used any of the special characters when setting
  your password during installation, you may find that you are
  accidentally typing different characters during your first log-in attempt.
  Jonathan's suggestion is a good one as it will get around this potential
  bug. When you manage to log-in you can then check what the keyboard is
  actually doing by trying each special character key in a Writer document.

  Also using GRUB for dual booting shouldn't cause that big a problem. I'm
  sure that I have seen articles where users have rejected a dual boot
  installation, removed the Linux partition, and got the Windows boot
  loader working again without having to completely re-install the Windows
  OS. I think that the Windows install disc has a repair facility which
  will do this. I don't use Windows myself but I will try and find an
  article for you if you want?

  Cheers,

  Barry

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