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

[Roger]

In my case I eventually discovered that for some reason xubuntu decided 
not to like a .profile with which it was quite happy with for a while.  
I have xubuntu on a laptop too so I just copied over the .profile, so 
now I can login.


On 14-07-08 11:51 AM, Walt Tramontana wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:00 AM, 
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>        1. Re:  Can't sign in to xubuntu desktop,    infinite login loop
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>     Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 16:14:17 +0200
>     From: Wybo Dekker <wybo at xs4all.nl <mailto:wybo at xs4all.nl>>
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>     Probably something is wrong with the ownership of your hidden
>     files. Have a look via ssh.
>
>     --
>     Wybo
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>     On 6 jul. 2014, at 13:25, Roger Miskowicz <rmisko11 at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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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