ubuntu 11.04 problems

[jdm-LPA1KyJyIuz1P9xLtpHBDw at public.gmane.org (dan moylan)]

running ubuntu 10.10 on acer aspire one d255e, i upgraded on
line to 11.04.  rebooted and when i went to login as moylan,
it returned me to the login screen -- without comment.
hmmmm.  there were no other users defined, but fortunately i
had previously set a password for root, so i tried logging
in as root and that worked fine.  su'ing into moylan,
everything worked ok.

as root i did an adduser mem (wife) and rebooted.  again
trying moylan, i was returned to the loging screen.  trying
mem, it went off into never never land.  rebooted and went
back in as root, all ok.

tiring of this, i downloaded 11.04, burned a disk, and
started a reinstall.  when i got to the repartitioning
screen, i started to recreate my previous partitions.
i was able to set up / and /home, but when i tried to define
/wrk0, i was only given the options on the pull-down screen
(/, /home, etc) and was totally unable to enter any text
into the box.  %$#!@*^?.

what next?

tia,
ole dan

j. daniel moylan
84 harvard ave
brookline, ma 02446-6202
617-232-2360 (tel)
810-454-1823 (fax)
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