I cannot log in to a particular user's account in X after upgrade to 13.04. The password is accepted, the screen goes blank but rather than getting the desktop I am quickly returned to the login screen.
I can log in as that user if I go to a text console using Ctrl+Alt+F1.
I can log in as other users in X.
I have switched to gdm but the results are the same. I have also installed gnome-shell and xfce and but cannot log in to them either.
Where should I look to troubleshoot this problem?
I had the very same problem some months ago, but can't quite point to it. Things to try: Go to text console, log in and check:
file permissions on /usr/, /etc/ and subfolders should mostly be 0755
add another user account. Can you log in graphically as him? If you can, it's about something in your home:
something I solve just by deleting (backup!) ~/.Xsession or basically ~/.X*
the jackhammer: mkdir ~/backup && mv ~/.??* ~/backup. If that doesn't kill it, the problem is not within your account.
In xubuntu if you change the display (only had to do this if I changed the GPU I was using, moved HDD into another system, but I never changed monitors) delete these files
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml~/.Xauthority~/.ICEauthorityIf you have a error in a lightdm script it can cause this
Lightdm scripts are set in this file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
They start with these lines: (these are not stock)
greeter-setup-script =session-cleanup-script =session-setup-script =display-setup-script =