I cannot log in Ubuntu 15.10

[Scott Blair]

On 01/28/2016 11:49 PM, Juan Blanco wrote:
> Hello Scott,
>
> Have you tried booting into Recovery mode then selecting check all 
> file systems available, and then trying to log in again?
>
> Juan
>
> intuitionist at msn.com
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: scott.blair at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: I cannot log in Ubuntu 15.10
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:26:40 -0500
>
> On 01/28/2016 11:16 PM, Liu Gengdai wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     Yesterday I found I couldn't log in Ubuntu 15.10 on my laptop.
>     Every time when I enter my login password, the screen just flashed
>     and went back to login screen again. I don't think I did anything
>     specially before. I didn't update Ubuntu recently. Ubuntu worked
>     very well in past days.
>
>     I tried several solutions in Ubutun forum, e.g. change the access
>     right of ~/.Xauthority, but they didn't work. The
>     ~/.xsession-errors file is empty. I cannot figure out what is
>     wrong with my Ubutun. I'll appreciate if anyone can help me.
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     -- 
>     Best Regards
>     __________________
>
>     Dr. Gengdai Liu
>     liugengdai at gmail.com <mailto:liugengdai at gmail.com>
>
>
> Can you Ctrl ALT F2 and log in there?
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Blair
>
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It's not me having the problem, this was my reply to the post.
  BTW I have never been able to boot into recovery mode. Even using the 
disk I installed with. Is there a trick to it that I don't know about?

-- 
Thanks,

Scott Blair

USMC Defending your freedoms since 10 November 1775

Save on backup time "BackupDevice=Null"

If you don't stand behind our troops,
feel free to stand in front of them.

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