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I've seen many people have same issue, and I was able to fix it. But unfortunately this problem repeats when I reboot my machine. This started few days ago when I updated my system.

Solution was to login via TTY nad remove .Xauthority file.

When I try to login I'm returned to back to login.

ls -ld .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 vito vito 0 Jan 31 00:07 .Xauthority

Maybe I have to explain that I have encrypted home folder, therefore I have to mount it first. After I mount it with command ecryptfs-mount-private I am able to login.

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What are you doing within your session? My guess is that on command line you type something like sudo gedit somefile or so... – guntbert Jan 30 at 18:01
I'm not really doing anything... Maybe I've missed some important details of problem. I'll add them. Sorry – user1188570 Jan 30 at 18:15
The next time it happens, please log in via TTY again, then type ls -ld .Xauthority and add the output to your question. – guntbert Jan 30 at 19:22
@guntbert Just did, changed chmod to 755 I can login but dont know if this will last. Thanks – user1188570 Jan 31 at 14:18
That looks good if you are logging in as vito. You should not need to chmod it (and chmod 755 is a bad idea anyway). Well maybe not completely ok, the file should not be empty after login. – guntbert Jan 31 at 16:06
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