smokeyone

I am not certain if this is the correct forum to post but for some reason a message keeps popping up on my Ubuntu about installing wicd - and entering a password -
any password that I can think of seems to be wrong - and now it wishes to report the problem. What is it and what do I do please.

reed9

Wait, you don't have wicd installed, and you're getting a message asking you to install it? That's very weird. When exactly does this happen?

The password would usually be your user password.

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smokeyone

I tried tried my user password (the same one as I used to edit torrent) but now I am beginning to wonder if it was the correct one...it happened when I clicked the wireless logo trying to connect...

tried the wireless logo just now - message says - wicd daemon unreachable
Just remembered - have downloaded latest ubuntu..

reed9

Try

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smokeyone

Seems I might have had a memory loss - every password I can think of is the wrong one - is there a way to find it......

reed9

From what I can find, the problem may be that the wicd daemon is not starting properly at boot, the wicd-client sees the daemon isn't running and tries to start it as root, but there is no root password in Ubuntu.

Though starting the daemon from the command line as I posted I would think would have worked if that's the case. Did you try that?

You can try setting a password for the root account, and see if that password then works.
it will prompt you for a password. Note that when entering the password, you won't see any output on the screen.

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smokeyone

Still getting "Sorry, try again"

Is there an easy way to check my memory loss of the password. Can I type something in terminal to check my password...because I am almost sure it was xxxxxx and now it seems not....

reed9

Type it will prompt for your password and log you in as root.

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You may need to reset your password before you can go any further. This is done by first booting into single user mode. There is a "How-To" on this.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...-password.html

Follow the instructions for booting GRUB into single user mode. Since Ubuntu doesn't have a root account, you will then follow the instructions for changing the user password.

Edit: Here's a How-To tailored to Ubuntu, so it is a better one to follow.

Reset Your Forgotten Ubuntu Password in 2 Minutes or Less :: the How-To Geek

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smokeyone

Thank you Waterhead - password problem solved.............


sudo /etc/init.d/wicd stop
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wicd
sudo /etc/init.d/wicd start

Tried the above Reed9 and terminal finished with starting network connection manager - but do not seem to have any internet connection at all now - wired or wireless.......no top right screen internet logo either........