Comment 21 for bug 544139

Hendrik,

For admin tasks, try to add a user through the GUI users-admin. I don't know about apache or cups, but I'm not surprised they fail too.

Before editing your bootloader, first try without that hack (e.g. only Sepero's 3 hacks). Then if it doesn't work for you this is the way to edit your bootloader:

1) sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

In there, change the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" init='/sbin/init --verbose' "

save this and then,

2) sudo update-grub

3) sudo grub-install <your drive device, e.g. /dev/sda>

then reboot a few times to see how it works.