[ale] unable to login after mess up

[David Tomaschik]

On 02/28/2011 08:17 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> I am still waiting for help on this.  I am stuck and not sure what to do
> on this.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
> <savithari at gmail.com <mailto:savithari at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Friends:
>      
>     Thanks for your time and attention.
>      
>     Last night, out of sheer frustration and stupidity, I completely
>     uninstalled the Myth portion from the MythUbuntu install.
>      
>     After this, I cleaned up the folders related to mytv.
>      
>     I then tried to login but I am blocked at the initial login screen. 
>     My password is correct since I can putty to this session from
>     another machine.
>      
>     I tried all Sessions, Mythubuntu, Xfce, User Defined.
>      
>     I then used the option Recovery, logged in and did an sudo apt-get
>     upgrade and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.
>      
>     Both were a success.
>      
>     However after reboot, I am unable to login again.
>      
>     So what gives ?
>      
>     -Narahari


What log messages are you seeing in /var/log/{syslog,messages,auth.log}
related to your login?  Did you have the full ubuntu-desktop installed?
 Otherwise, removing all those "Myth" components might have removed
components required for GUI login.

David