I was able to do mine, too, Christian, but by a slightly different approach. I had almost tried yours, but I misunderstood the directions and typed "passwd root xxxx" and "passwd bart yyy." Of course those were rejected.
I was about to start a new thread "have password and Ubuntu but no cursor" since there were no further answers in this one when I checked yesterday, but better stick with this one. Here is how I reached my present state.
Short version: I can now log in but still can't use Ubuntu.
Full version (When you get bored, please skip to last two paragraphs):
I repeated the steps Christian listed in the original thread. This time when the screen listing stopped at
I didn't assume failure but proceeded to the remount,rw command. No sooner had I typed the initial "m" than the screen jumped to a new line:
So I typed the command on that line. (Got a complaint that the command "mmount" was unknown, the first time.
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As had been the case previously, the result was
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mount: can't find UUID=2f0453bf-25f2-4c9b-bc75-ec19dbabcc3a
My reaction was why the heck are you looking for that UUID in the first place?
I still wonder about that. But I proceeded as if things were working:
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root@AmigaOneX5000:/# passwd bart
root@AmigaOneX5000:/# Enter new UNIX password:
root@AmigaOneX5000:/# Retype new UNIX password:
root@AmigaOneX5000:/# Authentication token manipulation error
I tried it again with the same result. Foiled again. But it had finally dawned on me that I was in a working terminal and I started playing with "ls," listing every directory in the resultant first list. I found a short text file I had written in Home/Documents and successfully Nano'ed it. Of course it informed me that it would not be able to save any changes, but I expected that.
Then I had a weird idea: It wouldn't remount root "/" read-write, but maybe this would work?
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root@AmigaOneX5000:/# mount -n -o remount,rw /dev/sda5
Yippee! Now I was permitted to rewrite that text file, but more importantly, I was able to set up a password. I rebooted, typed in my new password, and up came that old familiar Desktop.
The downside is, the cursor arrow sits paralyzed in the middle of the screen. I cannot move it. I can ctrl^Alt^T a terminal and do some things there. The cursor keys and Tab highlight this and that icon on the desktop, and Enter will open whatever, but I have no idea how to close things when Ctrl^Q doesn't do it. Some of the function keys do interesting things. The best I could come up with for turning the machine off was "reboot" in a terminal and power off when it got to Uboot.
Google tells me a lot of people have had a similar problem, but none of the fixes I find seem relevant to my case. What should I do next? (Besides go through the process again and set up a root password -- I got excited and skipped that one.)