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After an otherwise uneventful upgrade from 14.10 to 15.04 I cannot login. When I provide my password the screen flickers briefly and I am back at the login screen.

I have checked permissions on .Xauthority and they are set correctly.

I have also tried creating a new user, but the same problem persists.

Before reverting to the login screen I momentarily see an alert box "System program problem detected." I do not know if this is relevant to the issue.

My /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log contains this as the last line:

error setting MTRR (base = 0....) Invalid argument (22)
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  • Get into a TTY and reinstall lightdm. Apr 23, 2015 at 18:38
  • Thanks, but that doesn't change anything, the problem persists.
    – mac
    Apr 23, 2015 at 18:47
  • I'm glad you understood that. OK, try installing gdm. It might work better. Apr 23, 2015 at 19:10
  • Tried that in the mean time. That is even worse, with gdm I don't even get to a login screen, just black and some flicker every few seconds.
    – mac
    Apr 23, 2015 at 19:14
  • See what happens when you login as guest. Apr 23, 2015 at 19:16

2 Answers 2

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I fixed this problem by removing the nvidia drivers

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
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    Tried that one too, with no luck.
    – mac
    Apr 24, 2015 at 5:09
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    +1 from me, works. Reboot to ensure that the entire system knows the nvidia drivers are gone though.
    – dascandy
    May 2, 2015 at 13:01
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You can try this first, here is a link. Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop

If worse comes to worse you can remake the live USB. I would recommend Unetbootin as it really easily helps you to make it. The links for Unetbootin is here http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/. And the one for Ubuntu is here .http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop.

When you go back with the new USB, you can reinstall cleanly for sure that way.

Hope this helps. Good Luck!

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  • I recommend against Unetbootin. I used it to create a USB key for a Debian installation and the installation failed in weird ways although I tried several times in different ways. Not using Unetbootin immediately fixed the problem.
    – domsson
    Oct 25, 2015 at 14:48
  • @domdom ---- You reccomend against Unetbootin because you tried it to create a USB key for a Debians installation and failed in weird ways. However, we are talking about Ubuntu here...I have used plenty of different programs for creating live USBs for Ubuntu and the on that I found both most efficient and easy to use... Unetbootin. I personally enjoy it as all the user is required to do is select the version of Linux they want from a drop-down menu and the rest is just left to time. This makes it very easy for users as they can leave their pc and return back later with it all finished :)
    – Apad121
    Oct 26, 2015 at 16:13

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