Login again and again... but neve stop...

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 02 June 2007, Phil Bieber wrote:
> > My Ubuntu is stopping during the login...
> > I turn on the computer and the system begins... but when it reach the
> > login, I try to enter but everytime I try to do the login the system
> > comes back to the login again... I can't pass by the login... I used
> > right both user and password... but it don't accept... the system shows a
> > black image (like an error) and after come back to login... What could I
> > do to solve this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Ricardo.
>
> Hi!
> Try the following:
> When you're at the Login Screen, hit ALT+F1. You will get a command
> line. enter your username and  password. Then you should be either to
> login (in text mode) or you will see some error that you can post.
> If you get through there, I don't have an answer ready just yet...
> maybe somebody else has an idea?

Someone else just had this problem running KDE.   But I suppose it could 
happen with Gnome too.   For some reason the window mgr cannot start up.

In my case and the other persons too, it was something messed up in the ~/.kde  
files.   Mving   .kde  to   .kde.sav  solves the problem of login but you 
lose a lot of your settings.   I have also seen this problem when the system 
is low on space and the window mgr can't  start up because of this.