Broke my AA1 with sudo usermod -l YOURNAME user

Hi

Can anyone help? I was attempting to change the default user from 'user' to something more friendly like my name. I tried the following:
sudo usermod -l YOURNAME user

After a reboot it just gets stuck with a blank screen and the mouse cursor is a "X" symbol. Is there anyway to recover from this?

Thanks

 

I have the same issue, I just plan on rebooting with a usbstick, chroot'ing to the disk and resetting the useraccount.

How to fix it:

Follow the steps in my guide: viewtopic.php?f=39&t=7024&p=45961&hilit=usermod#p45961
Instead of reverting the usermod, you could try altering /etc/inittab. The line reading

Code:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin user tty1

Should then contain your username instead of user. However, I have seen some other rc scripts that contain the hard-coded username (even though it was only used to refer to the homedirectory which isn't altered with usermod I believe), so it might still break things.