Help can't login!

[Gerhard Magnus]

I started having the same problem last night on the one of my boxes 
running 32-bit Ubuntu 13.04 -- it hasn't occurred on my 64-bit machines. 
I found a way around it that works for me. It may be the proverbial 
"waving a dead chicken," as I have no idea why it works, but you know 
linux: every little thing is an adventure!

Using ssh, logon to the problem box from a remote one; then logoff. 
Then try logging on from the splash screen of the problem box. This has 
worked twice now. (It's as if connecting remotely wakes something up.)

On 09/15/2013 02:01 PM, Pete Smout wrote:
>
> Infact to prove I'm not mad......
> http://db.tt/uxAHoqCZ
> @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
> sent from my HTC.
>
> On Sep 15, 2013 9:10 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com
> <mailto:nathan.bahn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>
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>     On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com
>     <mailto:smoutpete at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with
>         you!
>         sent from my HTC.
>         On Sep 15, 2013 9:03 PM, "Bahn, Nathan" <nathan.bahn at gmail.com
>         <mailto:nathan.bahn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>          >
>          >
>          >
>          > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Pete Smout
>         <smoutpete at gmail.com <mailto:smoutpete at gmail.com>> wrote:
>          > > @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do
>         with you!
>          > > sent from my HTC.
>          > > On Sep 15, 2013 8:47 PM, "Bahn, Nathan"
>         <nathan.bahn at gmail.com <mailto:nathan.bahn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>          > >>
>          > >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Pete Smout
>         <smoutpete at gmail.com <mailto:smoutpete at gmail.com>> wrote:
>          > >> > Hi,
>          > >> > Just rebooted my 13.04 laptop, and I cannot login,
>         lightdm comes up, I
>          > >> > enter
>          > >> > my password, and end up back at the login screen!
>          > >> > I can get in with another user account, but it does not
>         have root
>          > >> > access, so
>          > >> > I can only view logs on syslog viewer, not all logs! As
>         in not the
>          > >> > lightdm
>          > >> > log or the greater log, which I can see in the file
>         broswer but not
>          > >> > open!
>          > >> > I have changed the passed of my account (after the
>         trouble started) to
>          > >> > see
>          > >> > if it was authentication problem, but no change.
>          > >> >
>          > >> > Any ideas gratefully received.
>          > >> >
>          > >> > Pete Smout
>          > >>
>          > >>
>          > >>
>          > >> Do you know how to access the command line interface?
>          > >
>          > > Yes I can login to a shell using my name and passwd.....?
>          >
>          >
>          >
>          > please try:
>          > $ su -l XXX
>          > where XXX =your login ID (please note "-l" is NOT the number one)
>          > --
>         Tried that asks for my sudo passwd then back to prompt no other
>         output!
>         Thanks for your help
>
>
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