I cannot log in Ubuntu 15.10

[Scott Blair]

On 01/29/2016 12:43 AM, Liu Gengdai wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Yes I can log in on Ctrl ALT F2.
>
>
> 2016-01-29 14:03 GMT+09:00 Scott Blair <scott.blair at gmail.com 
> <mailto:scott.blair at gmail.com>>:
>
>     On 01/28/2016 11:49 PM, Juan Blanco wrote:
>>     Hello Scott,
>>
>>     Have you tried booting into Recovery mode then selecting check
>>     all file systems available, and then trying to log in again?
>>
>>     Juan
>>
>>     intuitionist at msn.com <mailto:intuitionist at msn.com>
>>
>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     From: scott.blair at gmail.com <mailto:scott.blair at gmail.com>
>>     Subject: Re: I cannot log in Ubuntu 15.10
>>     To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>     <mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>     Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:26:40 -0500
>>
>>     On 01/28/2016 11:16 PM, Liu Gengdai wrote:
>>
>>         Hi
>>
>>         Yesterday I found I couldn't log in Ubuntu 15.10 on my
>>         laptop. Every time when I enter my login password, the screen
>>         just flashed and went back to login screen again. I don't
>>         think I did anything specially before. I didn't update Ubuntu
>>         recently. Ubuntu worked very well in past days.
>>
>>         I tried several solutions in Ubutun forum, e.g. change the
>>         access right of ~/.Xauthority, but they didn't work. The
>>         ~/.xsession-errors file is empty. I cannot figure out what is
>>         wrong with my Ubutun. I'll appreciate if anyone can help me.
>>
>>         Thanks.
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Best Regards
>>         __________________
>>
>>         Dr. Gengdai Liu
>>         liugengdai at gmail.com <mailto:liugengdai at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>     Can you Ctrl ALT F2 and log in there?
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Scott Blair
>>
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>     It's not me having the problem, this was my reply to the post.
>      BTW I have never been able to boot into recovery mode. Even using
>     the disk I installed with. Is there a trick to it that I don't
>     know about?
>
>     -- 
>     Thanks,
>
>     Scott Blair
>
>     USMC Defending your freedoms since 10 November 1775
>
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> __________________
>
> Dr. Gengdai Liu
> liugengdai at gmail.com <mailto:liugengdai at gmail.com>
>
>
Dr. Liu,

Ctrl ALT F2 again. then try this:
cd
sudo chown R username:username .* *
use the . before the * so it will pick up hidden files.
reboot and see if it works.

-- 
Thanks,

Scott Blair

USMC Defending your freedoms since 10 November 1775

Save on backup time "BackupDevice=Null"

If you don't stand behind our troops,
feel free to stand in front of them.

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