Failed to start session (Was password fail)

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 02:30:14PM +0100, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I thought I  had a password problem after upgrading to 22.04 (it ran fine while 
> 
> I updated with many re-boots) now I get
> 
> Login UI with password request, after entering correct password, I just get 
> "failed to start session" in pink above the entered password (I misunderstood 
> it as a password fail) in the same box
> 
> I have tried making a new user, but that user gets the same result
> 
> I get no other indication what is going wrong or how to correct this
> 
Can you log in to a terminal session (CTRL+ALT+Fn, n=1 to 6)?  If so
then take a look at the file .xsession-errors in your home directory,
that should show what stopped things starting up.

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Chris Green