wine users - Sep 2009 - Can only use Guest Mode - Normal user shows only desktop BG

Yeah, I'm making a seperate thread for it since "Garry's Mod
Questions" might prevent a few people from looking at it.

Well, if you've read my other thread you know this, but, I can only use my
computer in Guest mode, since Normal user shows only desktop background.. Guest
mode deletes anything you've downloaded, doesn't remember passwords,
doesn't remember ANYTHING since you've restarted your computer. I'm
stuck here using Guest Mode waiting for something to happen. >:0

The cause is a few PPA's (or what I know of them) and after getting 3, I
restarted, only to find myself in Guest Mode. I thought, "huh, must be
something that the PPA's did. Cool." As you can tell I thought it was
part of the process of loading the PPA's. I download them because someone on
the Ubuntu version of my G-Mod thread told me to download them, which should do
something like update my graphics card, since it WASN'T on the main Intel
site. >_> I switched my user after first going into Guest Mode, and you
can guess what happened. After directly shutting down my computer and doing the
same thing about three times, I found out that everything is just invisible. I
click the Firefox button and I heard the "dong." I opened my webcam
program and my webcam light turned on. So after figuring that out I just
switched users by using the little "switch user" button. ... As you
can tell this is somewhat of a mystery...

ALSO I CANNOT disable the PPA's because I have NO ADMINISTRATIVE POWER in
Guest Mode. I can't do ANYTHING to the computer.

:c

saronn wrote:
> Yeah, I'm making a seperate thread for it since "Garry's Mod
Questions" might prevent a few people from looking at it.
> 
> Well, if you've read my other thread you know this, but, I can only use
my computer in Guest mode, since Normal user shows only desktop background..
Guest mode deletes anything you've downloaded, doesn't remember
passwords, doesn't remember ANYTHING since you've restarted your
computer. I'm stuck here using Guest Mode waiting for something to happen.
>:0
> 
> The cause is a few PPA's (or what I know of them) and after getting 3,
I restarted, only to find myself in Guest Mode. I thought, "huh, must be
something that the PPA's did. Cool." As you can tell I thought it was
part of the process of loading the PPA's. I download them because someone on
the Ubuntu version of my G-Mod thread told me to download them, which should do
something like update my graphics card, since it WASN'T on the main Intel
site. >_> I switched my user after first going into Guest Mode, and you
can guess what happened. After directly shutting down my computer and doing the
same thing about three times, I found out that everything is just invisible. I
click the Firefox button and I heard the "dong." I opened my webcam
program and my webcam light turned on. So after figuring that out I just
switched users by using the little "switch user" button. ... As you
can tell this is somewhat of a mystery...
> 
> ALSO I CANNOT disable the PPA's because I have NO ADMINISTRATIVE POWER
in Guest Mode. I can't do ANYTHING to the computer.
> 
> :c

As you've already been told in the other thread, this has nothing to do with
Wine.  I don't use Ubuntu and don't have a clue what "guest
mode" is, but if no one on the Ubuntu forum has any idea what to do about
this problem, the simplest solution may be to reinstall everything from scratch.

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:49 -0500, saronn wrote:
> ALSO I CANNOT disable the PPA's because I have NO ADMINISTRATIVE POWER
> in Guest Mode. I can't do ANYTHING to the computer.
> 
Have you got another computer on your network?

If so, and it has the ssh client installed (Linux) or PuttY (Windows),
can you log in to your wrecked user or to root from it? 

What about using VNC from the second computer? If you can login via ssh,
start the vncserver. Your second computer's web browser should then be
able to start a remote desktop via VNC. 

If either of these works, log in as root and try setting up an
additional user via the remote login or VNC session and see if you can
login to that from the affected computers' console.


Martin

saronn wrote:
> Yeah, I'm making a seperate thread for it since "Garry's Mod
Questions" might prevent a few people from looking at it.
> 
> Well, if you've read my other thread you know this, but, I can only use
my computer in Guest mode, since Normal user shows only desktop background..
Guest mode deletes anything you've downloaded, doesn't remember
passwords, doesn't remember ANYTHING since you've restarted your
computer. I'm stuck here using Guest Mode waiting for something to happen.
>:0
> 
> The cause is a few PPA's (or what I know of them) and after getting 3,
I restarted, only to find myself in Guest Mode. I thought, "huh, must be
something that the PPA's did. Cool." As you can tell I thought it was
part of the process of loading the PPA's. I download them because someone on
the Ubuntu version of my G-Mod thread told me to download them, which should do
something like update my graphics card, since it WASN'T on the main Intel
site. >_> I switched my user after first going into Guest Mode, and you
can guess what happened. After directly shutting down my computer and doing the
same thing about three times, I found out that everything is just invisible. I
click the Firefox button and I heard the "dong." I opened my webcam
program and my webcam light turned on. So after figuring that out I just
switched users by using the little "switch user" button. ... As you
can tell this is somewhat of a mystery...
> 
> ALSO I CANNOT disable the PPA's because I have NO ADMINISTRATIVE POWER
in Guest Mode. I can't do ANYTHING to the computer.
> 
> :c

Even though this isn't the right place, let's try to do something but we
probably should do this while on an IRC or PM talk.

You can try to switch to another tty using CTRL+ALT+Fx (for instance,
CTRL+ALT+F4) and logging in using your acount. From there you shiuld be able to
get some decent control and try to disable them :)