[Cialug] I'm still having problems with my Ubuntu.

[Ralph Kessel]

Thanks Mat. It worked!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Nuzum" <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] I'm still having problems with my Ubuntu.


> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:47 -0500, Ralph Kessel wrote:
>> Yes one more thing --- ugh! I changed the hosts file and Ubuntu 6.01 
>> won't
>> let me due Sudo any more. Please help with that. It gives a message about
>> not being able to apply gethost.
>> Thanks
>
> You can boot into single user mode...
>
> at the grub menu, highlight your kernel (should be highlighted by
> default) and press e (for edit). Highlight the line that says something
> about boot/vmlinuz/ (its really long) and hit e again. This will take
> you to an editor. Move your cursor to the end of the line and add a
> space and then type the word "single" (without quotes). Hit Enter, to go
> back to the screen that shows the four or five lines. Hit b to boot.
> This will take you into single user mode. You are root. You can do
> whatever you want (like fix /etc/hosts). Once you type exit or reboot,
> the computer will go back to working the way it usually does. (unless
> your format your hard drive)
>
> An easier option: if your grub menu has a "recovery mode" option, this
> does the same thing... puts you into single user mode with out all the
> extra steps.
> -- 
> Matthew Nuzum
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