ubuntu: can't log in

Mr-White · 5 Dec 2007 at 19:11

installed ubuntu 7.10 last night but i can't log into any forums it says username and password is invalid. i can get into hotmail fine though. using firefox.

MW

Mr-White · 5 Dec 2007 at 20:08

i thought that so i typed the password in browser and it was ok

MW

Mr-White · 7 Dec 2007 at 11:46

someone else reccommended uninstalling the latest update and deleting the cookies and cache but didn't get a chance last night to check. will post back

MW

Mr-White · 8 Dec 2007 at 13:16

i re-installed ubuntu last night so the lay out on the hard disk is..

C: - vista
D: & E: - i set ubuntu to guided installation so i assume it installed these other 2 partitions.

both o/s' boot fine but i've got more problems with ubuntu, firstly when i ran the updates it said there was none even though when i installed it before it had 120mb of them to do, firefox still wont let me log into forums and i can't install anything now either. i downloaded amsn onto the desktop and last time i ran "sudo apt-get install amsn" and it was fine but now it keeps saying E: coulnt find package amsn". it does this when i try to install browser plugins too. ive also tried clearing the cache and cookies in firefox with no luck

MW

Mr-White · 9 Dec 2007 at 17:16

ive reinstalled ubuntu and i still cant log in to forums, although i can with the ubuntu forums which i registered for earlier :confused:

MW

Mr-White · 15 Dec 2007 at 15:59

they're stored in the browser but ive tried typing them in too. have also cleared all the passwords in the browser

MW