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 problem? How can I log back in to Ubuntu-Gnome?
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rm .Xauthority and allow it to get recreated– JoshuaMay 19, 2017 at 20:23
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The command is
sudo chown roey:roey .Xauthority
1st roey is the user, 2nd is the group roey
answered May 19, 2017 at 14:36
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5+1, but you will need
sudoif it's not yours already and btw the secondroeyis superfluous as just adding the colon after the first one changes the group as well– Zanna ♦May 19, 2017 at 15:17 -
1to finish this press ALT+-> several times (in my case it's 6 tty's so 6 times) until you get into the Ubuntu-Gnome login screen and login.– RoeyMay 19, 2017 at 16:51
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1@rafael but did you also get the same error notice? Have a look at the .xsessions_errors file in your home– RinzwindSep 11, 2017 at 6:46
If you don't know what username/group you shoud use, I suggest using something like this:
sudo chown $USER:`id -gn` .Xauthority
$USERwill be expanded into your current username.id -gnwill returns the main group of your current user.
answered May 19, 2017 at 15:53
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1Are you sure you don't mean
$USER:`id -gn`(note the colon character in the middle)? Also, that would be equivalent to just$USER:sincechownuses the primary group of the specified user if you omit the group name. May 19, 2017 at 20:15 -
@DavidFoerster Both
:and.will work fine, didn't know about omitting group like$USER:, good point +1 :-)– Ravexina ♦May 19, 2017 at 20:25 -
check
info coreutilsand the section which is aboutchown. I'll change it to:in case of username contains dot.– Ravexina ♦May 19, 2017 at 20:44 -
1Indeed: “New scripts should avoid the use of `.' because it is not portable […].” Looks like we both learned something today. :-] May 19, 2017 at 20:47
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Yeah, I just used it to show an alternative approach and it caused us to learn something new :)– Ravexina ♦May 19, 2017 at 20:48