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I upgraded from 11.04 to 12.04 and when it was all finished i couldn't login unless i went in as a guest.

So following a lot of pages on here i deleted the ~/Xauthority High seemed to work.

However just before that i also ran sudo chmod -R $USER:$USER $HOME

Now after I've entered my password i get a small terminal window appear in the top left with me logged in.

I can't seem to find anything around this. Any ideas?

I can't help but think I've set all the files to something they shouldn't all be.

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  • Can you copy/paste the contents of ~/.xsession-errors? And /var/log/Xorg.0.log? You can mount a USB stick using this instructions and copying the files just with cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /media/usb/.
    – Braiam
    Sep 10, 2013 at 15:05
  • I'll try it tmrw night when i get a chance. Thanks for the reply Braiam
    – Russ
    Sep 10, 2013 at 22:19
  • xsession-errors is empty, I thought that maybe it's because I hadn't run it. So when I did, I got the error 'User not authorized to run the X server , aborted'. So googling that I found the following page (khattam.info/…) and did sudo dpkg-reconfigure x11-common but it said that it was already running on display 0. Attaching the Xorg.0.log in the next comment
    – Russ
    Sep 11, 2013 at 22:06
  • It wouldn't let me add it as a comment, not enough space, so I put it in the answer. Hope that's ok...
    – Russ
    Sep 11, 2013 at 22:10
  • You can upload files to paste.ubuntu.com then copy the link and paste it in your question....
    – Braiam
    Sep 11, 2013 at 22:11

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You may have accidentally choosen the failsafe session from the session menu in the login screen.

When you are on the login screen choose your user and click on the Ubuntu logo and choose Unity or Unity 2D from the list and login.

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