Logon loop after upgrade

[eyal at eyal.emu.id.au]

On 5/4/24 20:49, Grizzlly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> My last upgrade of Unity Noble (from working stable state) left me in a logon
> loop, at first I thought my password had been corrupted so I did the usual PW
> to recover with no change
> 
> Then I opened a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F3) where my password did work, I ran
> 
> apt update --fix-missing
> apt -f full-upgrade
> 
> but still only get to the loop
> 
> any other ideas that "may" get me back to a GUI

May be of help: when this happened to me after the last upgrade (I use fedora) the session type selection
on the greeter was reset so I was returned to the login after entering the password. Selecting the session
type is a drop down at a low corner so it was easy to miss. Once I selected "xfce session" I was back.

> I can run and post tests if that helps
> 
> Grizz
> 

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