What is Wrong with my Gigabyte 6PXSV4 Computer or Ubuntu?

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scharfshutze009

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Could someone please tell me what is wrong with my Gigabyte 6PXSV4 Computer or ubuntu? This thing showed signs of it's demize when the front USB 3.0 ports stopped working about a year or more ago from being burnt out. Now this, which is that when I attempt to login with the correct usename that is already entered for me and the password the login screen locks up.
Can I use Knoppix or one of the other Linux rescue password operating systems with Ubuntu to see if the password has been compromised and if not Knoppix then which Linux distro?

Here's a video showing what happened when I tried to login:




Please don't point out the obvious fact that the orientation of the video changes to upside down as I already know this, but don't know how to fix it considering I used a cell phone to record this video.
 
The fact that you don't know how to fix your cell phone orientation tells a lot of the reasons for your problems. The user.

You can boot your ubuntu with a live cd or booting into recovery mode and reset your password using it. Then a pro tip: Write your user name and password down so you won't forget it.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrative-password

Also wtf is going on with the advertisements?
 
scharfshutze009 said:
Could someone please tell me what is wrong with my Gigabyte 6PXSV4 Computer or ubuntu? This thing showed signs of it's demize when the front USB 3.0 ports stopped working about a year or more ago from being burnt out. Now this, which is that when I attempt to login with the correct usename that is already entered for me and the password the login screen locks up.
Can I use Knoppix or one of the other Linux rescue password operating systems with Ubuntu to see if the password has been compromised and if not Knoppix then which Linux distro?

Here's a video showing what happened when I tried to login:




Please don't point out the obvious fact that the orientation of the video changes to upside down as I already know this, but don't know how to fix it considering I used a cell phone to record this video.
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Without looking at the video, it seems to me that the issues are probably all hardware related and it is time for a new or newer working machine to replace this one.
 
I'm struggling to make anything out in that video, it's all over the place!

What options are there in the GRUB menu? Do you have more than one OS installed? Is the drive encrypted? Have you tried running the live installer to see if the machine will boot off the live installer in order to rule out a hardware related issue?
 
B00nie said:
The fact that you don't know how to fix your cell phone orientation tells a lot of the reasons for your problems. The user.

You can boot your ubuntu with a live cd or booting into recovery mode and reset your password using it. Then a pro tip: Write your user name and password down so you won't forget it.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrative-password

Also wtf is going on with the advertisements?
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Thanks I knew this, but I don't write down my local username and password because I usually don't forget them and didn't in this case. The login screen just locks up after I enter the correct password and press enter. The advertisements or logo's are me giving credit to the hardware venders and also me keeping this video from just being about my problem with my computer, so the venders get some credit for their products.
 
Mazzspeed said:
I'm struggling to make anything out in that video, it's all over the place!

What options are there in the GRUB menu? Do you have more than one OS installed? Is the drive encrypted? Have you tried running the live installer to see if the machine will boot off the live installer in order to rule out a hardware related issue?
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Sorry about the video orientation, but I didn't see anything to rotate the video during filming and I don't think it would have helped in Openshot unless I trimmed those parts of the video something I don't think openshot can do with out changing the start and end time of the video and recompiling the video then saving it as a seperate file that can be a real pain if possible at all and Openshot is the only reliable video editing program I know of on Linux that is an Alternative to Microsofts Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows.

I don't know what options I have in grub, but I know recovery is the last one, Windows is first, the something else is second, and Ubuntu normal boot (not actually what it says) is third in the grub menu. I'll get back to you about what it actually says when or after I'm on site and able to get a picture or screenshot of it or the code if you want to see that. I have instructions on how to boot to knoppix optical media and change the password that way, which are very similar to what B00nie provided and thank you to him as well as you for showing me how to handle this for Ubuntu instead of Redhat as I've only done this for Redhat and CentOS systems before and not Ubuntu or Debian as well as other Linux distros despite that the location of the password file should pretty much be the same.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
Thanks I knew this, but I don't write down my local username and password because I usually don't forget them and didn't in this case. The login screen just locks up after I enter the correct password and press enter. The advertisements or logo's are me giving credit to the hardware venders and also me keeping this video from just being about my problem with my computer, so the venders get some credit for their products.
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Playing an upside down video of broken hardware is not exactly credit. Just saying.
 
I'm not sure why I'm bothering...

Boot without the GUI.

If your getting to the GUI loggin with LightDM or whatever your using... push control+alt+F1 and get to TTY1 and login without the GUI.

Or

Edit your grub boot.... add "3" to your boot parameters. (push E ... add "3" and hit F10 to boot with your edits) This will give you a Text login without X server running.

You'll see something like that in your grub stuff... "quite and splash are boot paramaters just add a 3 after them"
initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=/dev/sda2 quiet splash
initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=/dev/sda2 quiet splash 3

Once logged in you can do whatever you need to do to fix you issue. I have no idea what your actual issue is. But I imagine you will have an easier time finding it if you can log in. Perhaps you get lucky and after running a full system update whatever your problem is fixes itself.
 
Most likely the easiest solution would be to do a reinstall. Judging from Scharfs earlier posts it's highly likely he has done something by himself to mess up the operating system - or the fault that killed the USB3 ports has now escalated.
 
Mazzspeed said:
I bet there's nothing wrong with the USB ports beyond driver issues....
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Maybe, but Gigabyte doesn't support Ubuntu on this board just like the 7PEHS3. Also, finding and installing third party drivers for this Gigabyte motherboard and the 7PESH3 aren't exactly easy to get or make either.
 
B00nie said:
Most likely the easiest solution would be to do a reinstall. Judging from Scharfs earlier posts it's highly likely he has done something by himself to mess up the operating system - or the fault that killed the USB3 ports has now escalated.
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This might be possible, but the system still posts and I haven't tried change the password in recovery mode yet if it is the problem.
 
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scharfshutze009 said:
Maybe, but Gigabyte doesn't support Ubuntu on this board just like the 7PEHS3. Also, finding and installing third party drivers for this Gigabyte motherboard and the 7PESH3 aren't exactly easy to get or make either.
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Your board is RHEL certified so why not use it?
 
Anyway boot-repair Linux says sda5 is full, which can prevent it from booting try erasing files. However, I can't tell what I would want to delete using the Mozilla Firefox browser in boot repair that it defaults to and it won't connect to the internet for me to upload a screenshot directly, which I can't use a flash drive because my front USB 3.0 ports, the front 2.0 are to close together, and my rear usb ports are full. Therefore, I can't decide what to unplug to make enough usb ports available for me to get a screenshot off the machine and I tried the sudo service network-manager restart command, which I know there is more I could do like manually assign an IP address as well as turn on dhcp if not already on when booting from the live usb flash drive.

I checked to see what sda5 is an it's /, which is not good. However, / or sda5 doesn't have any other Linux partitions except maybe /home and /swap to compete with and the physical capacity of the hard drive is 2 TB with 1 TB for the WIndows side and 1 TB for the Linux side. I already pretty much have all the files backed up from the Linux side, but I don't know about the Windows side because I haven't been able to access it for months.
 
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scharfshutze009 said:
Yes I know CentOS is the free equivalent, but I liked that Ubuntu's documentation was in a book while CentOS's was in a Wiki.
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Liked? First of all, computer literature is always outdated by the time it gets out of press. Second, you should not pick an OS for your hardware based on which form its documentation is. You need to check hardware compatibility.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
Anyway boot-repair Linux says sda5 is full, which can prevent it from booting try erasing files. However, I can't tell what I would want to delete using the Mozilla Firefox browser in boot repair that it defaults to and it won't connect to the internet for me to upload a screenshot directly, which I can't use a flash drive because my front USB 3.0 ports, the front 2.0 are to close together, and my rear usb ports are full. Therefore, I can't decide what to unplug to make enough usb ports available for me to get a screenshot off the machine and I tried the sudo service network-manager restart command, which I know there is more I could do like manually assign an IP address as well as turn on dhcp if not already on when booting from the live usb flash drive.

I checked to see what sda5 is an it's /, which is not good. However, / or sda5 doesn't have any other Linux partitions except maybe /home and /swap to compete with and the physical capacity of the hard drive is 2 TB with 1 TB for the WIndows side and 1 TB for the Linux side. I already pretty much have all the files backed up from the Linux side, but I don't know about the Windows side because I haven't been able to access it for months.
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I started reading this thread and the minute I saw B00nie suggest a reinstall I wanted to reply so bad.. but, as I usually do, I finished reading the thread first and sweet fuck me Jesus.

Pretty sure this is all user related. And I hate not helping people, but that usb scenario about which to unplug and which not to.. yep, no thanks.
 
auntjemima said:
I started reading this thread and the minute I saw B00nie suggest a reinstall I wanted to reply so bad.. but, as I usually do, I finished reading the thread first and sweet fuck me Jesus.

Pretty sure this is all user related. And I hate not helping people, but that usb scenario about which to unplug and which not to.. yep, no thanks.
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Wow! I missed that USB port availability comment. First world problems for sure!

C'mon Scharf, you've got to help yourself before others can offer advice.
 
Mazzspeed said:
Wow! I missed that USB port availability comment. First world problems for sure!

C'mon Scharf, you've got to help yourself before others can offer advice.
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Yea I know I need to help myself before others can help me. I was stumped at to why my workstation was doing this, but now I know it's because sda5 is full or overflowing. Thanks for all the help though and boot-repair helped me figure out the rest that sda5 was full.
 
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