Can't Enter Password in Recovery Mode

Posted by Mike Lentini on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Mike Lentini
Published on 2012-01-19T17:32:26Z Indexed on 2012/04/03 5:40 UTC
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When I go into recovery mode to get to the command line, I enter "telinit 3" to drop out of root. This works on my desktop, but on my laptop it asks for my username and password, then I hit enter and the first letter of my password appears and it doesn't log me in. It then proceeds to ask me for my username and password again, and the issue continues. Am I doing something wrong? Is this a known issue with a solution?

EDIT: Worked around this by going into /etc/default/grub and setting it to boot in text mode. Still would like a solution for this though.

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