No Menu After Installation

[SWThompson]

All I can do is login or shutdown.

After installing 8.04 (from the "Ubuntu Unleashed" book), the login and pasword dialogs come up but they keep reappearing. The menu options are not available at the top-left. The only thing available is the bottom-left options to shutdown, change sessions, etc...

When I Ctrl-Alt-F1, I can see that my login name and password are valid.

I've read (somewhere) that the display configuration is very important. This makes me speculate my menu is somewhere off of the monitor. Maybe? Is there some means of booting to a basic configuration mode like the "safe mode" in a different and popular OS?

[oz]

Hello and welcome to the forums!

8.04 came out over two years ago, so if you aren't opposed to doing so, I'd recommend downloading and trying the latest release because it will have much better hardware support. That said, the liveCD versions of Ubuntu always give me graphical problems during installations, but the "alternate installer" version works properly every time. It's a text only installer (no liveCD environment) but is menu driven and easy to use. You can find it on the downloads page at the Ubuntu website.

Hope it all works out well for you.

[MASONTX]

Linux is case sensitive, so make sure your login/password appear in the same case they were initially entered. If entered "User" "Password", "user" "password" wont work.

[SWThompson]

Thank you. I'll try it.