[Discuss] Kubuntu 7.04

[Corey Burger]

On 4/30/07, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I am taking the advice of many on the list to really try to get Kubuntu
> going. I had problems with the bootloader on previous attempts, but
> decided to try again with the new release.
>
> Things seemed to have gone OK, except for the following
>
> At first boot after installation, it set up a "temporary" account
> "oem".  I used addgroup and adduser to set up regular users on the
> system.  I then logged out and selected "Restart".  The screen went
> blank (well, really a kind of gray), and then just hung there.  After a
> long time, trying all kinds of things like <CTRL><ALT><DELETE> and
> various Fn with <CTRL> and/or <ALT>, I finally pressed the reset button
> on the computer.  It rebooted (after doing all the usual disk checks
> when LINUX doesn't shut down properly.

It looks like you accidentally set up the system in OEM install mode,
a mode allowing people to edit the system before they sell teh system.
How you ended up installing this way is not something I can guess,
becuase I have never installed Kubuntu.

Corey