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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - 32 bit version on my system. I did sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. I installed the following packages -

  1. vim-gnome,

  2. python-matplotlib,

  3. python-scipy,

  4. acroread, and

  5. git.

I have a GPU on my machine: Nvidia GeForce GT 520. I wanted to install the CUDA Toolkit on this machine. For this, I have followed the instructions given in the webpage

https://www.udacity.com/wiki/cs344/ubuntu_dev

I did what has been told there with few changes:

  1. In the step sudo apt-get install build-essential libopencv-dev linux-headers-uname -r(I dind't put uname -r in the appropriate quotes to maintain consistency), I have skipped the installation of libopencv-dev because I wanted to install OpenCV separately.

  2. I have downloaded the 32-bit version of CUDA Toolkit from https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads.

  3. I have stopped the lightdm service in the beginning of the installation using the command sudo service lightdm stop.

  4. The entire installation was done using the command prompt (CTRL-ALT-F1).

After this, when I tried to login from my account, I am unable to login. Though I am entering the correct password, it is returning me to the login screen. I have tried to do the following:

  1. Used the command sudo chown <myusername>:<myyusername> .Xauthority from the command prompt. But, it showed an error that Could not update ICE authority file /home/user/.ICEauthority

  2. So, I followed the procedure on Cannot login after update ubuntu 12.04 . ICEauthority error message. It still didn't work.

  3. I tried to remove the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf which was made during the installation as given above. I then updated: sudo update-initramfs -u

Waiting for an answer.

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  • I am able to use the guest account.
    – rahul
    Jan 8, 2014 at 12:09

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I have found a solution to this problem.

A short and easy procedure to install CUDA Tool kit v5.5 in Ubuntu is given on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVzSullC9l8

If you have any version of CUDA, then run this command: /usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall. Then, proceed with the installation. The Xorg settings, and blacklisting drivers are automatically taken care of during the installation. I have followed this procedure and I could easily install CUDA on my machine.

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