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[sanjaypothen]

How do i log in from the terminal?

[coopstah13]

do you mean terminal as in gnome terminal or a console?

it is the same as through graphical interface

[sanjaypothen]

what is gnome terminal and console i don't know.What i mean is the terminal of ubuntu.

[devils casper]

Could you explain a bit more? What do you mean by terminal of Ubuntu?

Is it a machine in Network having Ubuntu installed?
Do you want to boot up Ubuntu in command line mode ( terminal ttys )
Simple terminal window of Ubuntu to execute commands???

[sanjaypothen]

Could you explain a bit more? What do you mean by terminal of Ubuntu?

Is it a machine in Network having Ubuntu installed?
Do you want to boot up Ubuntu in command line mode ( terminal ttys )
Simple terminal window of Ubuntu to execute commands???

See when i typed by pressing CRTL+ALT+F1 in the keyboard for the terminal of ubuntu i was asked to type my user name and password, though i did type both of them the desktop session or screen did not come.
I want to boot up the ubuntu in command line mode.(No it is not the simple ubuntu terminal )

I want to do this as i am not able to log in from the pop up window.(I do not know what this window is called.(Maybe genome graphical window)

No it is not networked to any other machine.

[coopstah13]

the console is text ony mode, it will not pop up anything graphical

[ptkobe]

See when i typed by pressing CRTL+ALT+F1 in the keyboard for the terminal of ubuntu i was asked to type my user name and password, though i did type both of them the desktop session or screen did not come.

CRTL+ALT+F1 lets you access a virtual terminal (/dev/tty1) which is, as coopstah13 said, non-graphical.

You do know that if you press CRTL+ALT+F7 you can go to the graphical desktop again (and then switch again to the terminal with CRTL+ALT+F1, and so on)?

[ptkobe]

I want to boot up the ubuntu in command line mode.

ubuntu starts on runlevel 2. To boot up in command line you have to NOT start the graphical init scripts on level 2 (/etc/rc2.d/...).

Then you may start graphics doing
$ sudo init 5
supposing graphical init scripts are allowed on level 5.

That's how I do it.

Some Notes:
* system initialization have being changing from sysvinit to upstart on ubuntu. The above applies to sysvinit, not sure for upstart.

* On other distributions with sysvinit you change booting on a terminal or graphical by editing inittab file. Not on ubuntu. And not in Debian, I think.

Regards
Luis

[devils casper]

See when i typed by pressing CRTL+ALT+F1 in the keyboard for the terminal of ubuntu i was asked to type my user name and password, though i did type both of them the desktop session or screen did not come.

Ctrl+Alt+F1 is Terminal 1 only and graphical interface doesn't appear in it. You can switch back to graphical interface though.

I want to boot up the ubuntu in command line mode.(No it is not the simple ubuntu terminal )

You can pass single keyword to kernel in GRUB Menu to boot up in Single User Mode.

I want to do this as i am not able to log in from the pop up window.(I do not know what this window is called.(Maybe genome graphical window)

Press Alt+F2 at Desktop and type gnome-terminal. Does terminal window pop up? You can execute all of your command in there.

[sanjaypothen]

I don't understand. My problem is that i am not able to log in,even in the text mode or graphical mode.please help?