I have Ububtu 16.04 and recently downloaded an update and ever since I cannot access Ubuntu. at startup screen I am now asks for a password which i never had to use at startup before, when I enter my password that I had setup to verify downloads etc it wont accept it . after I enter my password the screen goes blank and then returns to previous screen asking for password
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Please consider going to ubuntuforums.org– userDepthNov 20, 2016 at 11:36
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Possible duplicates: askubuntu.com/questions/759871/… and askubuntu.com/questions/759995/…– AnotherKiwiGuyNov 20, 2016 at 13:21
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@userDepth there's no reason that this user needs to take his question elsewhere.– heynnemaNov 24, 2016 at 17:43
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replace your_username, shown below, with your username
- boot the computer and observe the GRUB menu
- choose
advanced options
- choose
root access
- type
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
- type
cd /home/your_username
- type
sudo chown your_username:your_username .ICEauthority
- type
sudo chown your_username:your_username .Xauthority
- type
reboot
- login like normal