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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/15/2014 01:11 AM, som wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px;
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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>
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<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>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px;
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font-style: normal;">what should i now do? thanks in advance.</div>
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Have you tried clearing your password [assuming you use one] from
the /etc/shadow file to see if it is an authentication issue?<br>
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Fred<br>
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