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508 questions linked to/from Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
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Ubuntu 20.04 - Can’t log in after upgrade
I installed 20.04 (upgraded from 18.04) and cannot log in at all. I’ve tried changing my password using recovery mode, installing lightdm, and using Ctrl-Alt-F3.
Strangely, when using Ctrl-Alt-F3, I ...
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Can't login after installing AMDGPU-PRO 16.60
I've just installed AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 in my system and after rebooting I can't login anymore. The LightDM is always restarting.
The Xorg.0.log error is:
[ 46.106] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/...
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Switch user not working in 17.10
I have 1 user beside myself on my desktop pc. when I click on "Switch User" it merely offers me login again. It would seem that the switch user function is broken. Any ideas how to fix it?
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chown username:username .Xauthority
I'm stuck in a login loop Ubuntu 17.04.
When I go to tty1 and type chown username:roey .Xauthority taken from Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
It says that my user doesn't exist.
What is the ...
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Encrypted Home... Forgotten Password, but no Passphrase
I am using a cloned hard drive in attempts to restore some old files.
The cloned drive has 2 users, one with an encrypted home drive, one without. Both are administrators. When I couldn't get into ...
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Ubuntu randomly started blinking the screen on boot
I used my Ubuntu Desktop yesterday as usual, but now I can't boot in because the screen keeps flickering to a black screen and a verbose boot screen where I see no failure or errors. I can ALT-F2 and ...
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GDM isn't able to login
The login screen shows and i choose myself. Then the screen goes black, and the login screen shows again.
Arvid
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I can't login to Ubuntu on Virtualbox
When I enter my password and press enter, it processes for a while and then loops me right back to the account login screen again. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.
I've tried using the advice on this thread ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 upgrade gives blank screen
I did the upgrade to 15.10 and I boot up into a blank screen. I am able to get to the consoles, tty1, tty2, and etc. I do have a video card; I think it is NVIDIA...
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Xubuntu 13.04 X Login Loop
All of a sudden, I am no longer able to login to an X session in my Xubuntu 13.04 install. The graphical login accepts my password, the screen goes blank and then returns to the login prompt. A bit of ...
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"System program problem detected" after login?
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my HP Pavilion dm4 laptop the other day and everything was working fine until yesterday. I started up my laptop, but for some reason, at the login screen, I didn't see my ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 opening system setting logs me out
I've recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 in a dual-boot configuration with Windows 10. I noticed today that, when trying to open system settings, Ubuntu seems to log me out to the lock screen. When I log ...
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Can't login in from LightDM
But just LightDM. It worked this morning, just does not seem to be working this evening. This seems to occurred after a shutdown after a wakeup from hibernation. I always get a password denied sort of ...
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14.04 unity does not start after login screen
In Ubuntu 14.04, after arriving at the lightdm login screen and entering my password, the screen briefly disappears, but then comes back to the login screen. When going to terminal with ALT-CTR-F1 and ...
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Revert back to Nouveau drivers [duplicate]
I was trying to install the proprietary nvidia drivers for my optimus laptop. This resulted in my GUI disappearing, I can only see my desktop background (can still open terminal and right-click the ...
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