[xubuntu-users] need help for logging into xubuntu 13.10

[Benjamin Shadwick]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:11 PM, som <drsoumalya-distro at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> i am having a little problem with my xubuntu 13.10. until 48 hours back,
> it was working fine. i did not upgrade/update anything in between;
> auto-update option is disabled. while using it yesterday, suddenly i felt a
> sluggish behaviour. so i shut it down. the problem started since then. on
> the next boot, i encountered a black screen rather than the window system.
>
> pressed ctrl+alt+F3 and was able to log in from that point onward; but no
> desktop. tried chown username:username .Xauthority
> after that i was able to see the log in screen. now the biggest problem.
> when i am entering my username and password, it is refusing to acknowledge
> it; just looping back to the same page again and again!
>
Are there any hints in the system logs in /var/log ?
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