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I'm using ubuntu 12.10, when I login the login window appears again!!

any idea?

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Can you provide more information, to enable us tyo help you. Are you sure your login credentials are correct for example. How far do you get when you first login? Are there any error messages? – Stephen Myall Nov 27 '12 at 17:23
[SOLVED]After trying many times the problem resolved itself. witchcraft! – fernando.lguevara Nov 27 '12 at 17:50

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while booting up press and hold down SHIFT key until the GRUB Menu appear, then select the Recovery mode. Inside that choose to invoke the Root terminal and if asked enter the password for root account. Then navigate to /home/ and check whether you own your Home directory by running ls -l, this should output something like this 

drwx------ 86 <username> <username>  4096 Nov 27 19:50 <username>
drwx------  2 root   root   16384 Oct  9 20:40 lost+found

run sudo chown -R <username>:<username> <user_home> and confirm with password logout and reboot, then try logging in again.

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