<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>hi,</div><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><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><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="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><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 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">what should i now do? thanks in advance.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;">regards</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">som<br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div></div></body></html>