[xubuntu-users] Can't sign in to xubuntu desktop, infinite login loop

[Walt Tramontana]

Hi, I'm new to the group--
I experienced the same issue on July 5th or 6th.  I am running Xubuntu and
I removed .Xauthority, viewed the xsession logs, tried changing ownerships
and groups of files and directories.  In the end I was so desperate after
google left me hopeless that I switched to a console and

*sudo apt-get purge x11* xubuntu-desktop lightdm nvidia** #Nvidia is my
graphics card, and I was using proprietary drivers.

*sudo apt-get install x11-common xubuntu-desktop*

...and I think that brought me back up so that I could login without the
loop.  My recollection is fuzzy because I've been fussing with a ubuntu
server and trying to setup a openvpn for myself- so there's been a lot
going on in my mind with different systems.

If in the end, it may be less frustrating for you to just reinstall your
OS, since you (hopefully) put your /home on a different partition.



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> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 16:14:17 +0200
> From: Wybo Dekker <wybo at xs4all.nl>
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> Probably something is wrong with the ownership of your hidden files. Have
> a look via ssh.
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> Wybo
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> On 6 jul. 2014, at 13:25, Roger Miskowicz <rmisko11 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I installed xubuntu-desktop on kubuntu and everything worked fine until
> I shutdown and restarted now I can't get past the login to which it keeps
> coming back.  Password is good, I can still ssh into the computer and I can
> sudo.  Tried removing .Xauthority and all the other things that are easily
> found using google.  Sometimes I get a MAGIC-NUMBER error but I don't know
> what do with that.  Any suggestions on where to look or something else to
> try would be much appreciated.
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