Ubuntu desktop - can't login

[Alfredo De Luca]

Well I was wrong. It's happening again..
Not sure why now.


/Alfredo

On Thu., 2 Apr. 2020, 3:12 pm Alfredo De Luca, <alfredo.deluca at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Colin.
> I couldn't login from the GUI on the desktop.... but I could login with
> with the same user in ssh.
> Then I created another user and I could login with the new user from the
> GUI...but still nothing with my user.
>
> I played a bit with the .Xauthority file and now it seems to be ok
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:22 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In what way can you not login? Invalid password, accepts pwd but sends
>> you straight back to login, something else?
>> If you connect via ssh and
>> tail -f /var/log/syslog
>> then try to login via gui does it show anything in the tail?
>>
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 23:12, Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > HI all.
>> > I am running Ubuntu desktop  19.10 on my laptop. I did an upgrade a few
>> hours ago and rebooted.
>> > Then when I try to login it doesn't allow me anymore.
>> > So I ssh the laptop with the same user and I can login then became root
>> and create another account.
>> > Back on the laptop now I can login with the new user but cannot with
>> the first user.
>> >
>> >
>> > Any idea? what is gone wrong and how to recover form it?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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