18.04 login to Lightdm

[Jack McGee]

thank you for telling me to look at that thread again more closely.  
This has happened to me before.  It is the XFCE environment I cannot 
load.  I picked Unity and I have desktop again.

I think I can sort out XFCE now that I know that is it.


On 11/1/20 10:38 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 16:15, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
>> Not sure what happened here.  I get login loop on desktop login. fills
>> in default username, but after entering password, screen goes black
>> briefly then goes back to login prompt.
>>
>> I can login via SSH using same username/password combination.
> Have a look at Gregory Gamble's recent thread.
>
> This is not a login failure. You are logging in successfully, but then
> your desktop session is crashing, which returns you to the login
> screen.
>
>