Ubuntu stuck on login screen [duplicate]
I have a small issue with my Ubuntu (I think After an upgarde). When I try to login (Login Screen), I get disconnected and get back to the screen (again & again).
I tried:
- Trying to login with others Desktop environements.
- Booting from old kernel.
- log in via command line [
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
]. - removing
~/.gconf
directory. -
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
andsudo apt-get install unity
None of these solutions worked.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F3 and login into the shell using your username and your password. In this case username will be your username you set when you installed Ubuntu.
Now run ls -lah
and look for the output line that ends with .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 root root 53 Nov 29 10:19 .Xauthority
then you need to do chown username:username .Xauthority
and try logging in.
Else, do ls -ld /tmp
. Check for the first 10 letters in the left: they should read exactly so: drwxrwxrwt
.
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 4096 Nov 30 04:17 /tmp
Else, you need to do sudo chmod a+wt /tmp
and check again.
If not both, I'd recommend you either
Make sure you are connected to internet with DHCP on.
sudo apt-get purge lightdm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lightdm
dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Now type sudo shutdown -r now
to restart.