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We recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit Desktop OS on Dell PC.

After installing certain packages on it, we restarted the PC. We are unable to login in GUI but able to login via console. You may check the attached image.

Kindly help us in solving this.

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  • Have you tried resetting the lightdm.conf and restarting the pc? Jun 9, 2015 at 6:12
  • Yes, I did that. didn't help Jun 9, 2015 at 10:32
  • are you logged into console as mytxxx06? Jun 9, 2015 at 10:34
  • You said you installed certain packages. What exactly did you install ? Jun 9, 2015 at 10:51
  • Sharad Gautam, I am able to login from console. Jun 10, 2015 at 9:05

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Since you are able to login through console check output of

ls -l ~/.Xauthority

It must be owned by you. If it is owned by root - that's the problem.

chown username:username .Xauthority 

should fix it

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  • .Xauthority file is owned user itself. its not owned by root. Even I created a new user, the same thing is happening, none of the users are able to login. Jun 9, 2015 at 10:31

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