<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:11 PM, som <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drsoumalya-distro@yahoo.co.in" target="_blank">drsoumalya-distro@yahoo.co.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif"><div><span>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. </span></div>
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<span>pressed ctrl+alt+F3 and was able to log in from that point onward; but no desktop. tried chown username:username .Xauthority <br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:transparent;font-family:sans-serif">
<span>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!</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div>Are there any hints in the system logs in /var/log ? <br></div></div></div></div>