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I'm really new to Linux, but I've tried everything in here: Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop and, unless I'm doing everything wrong, it does not fix it. I don't have the guest option. What can I do?

I can login in terminal and I installed Ubuntu about a week ago in a free 1TB disk, it's almost empty. According to what I understand after running df -hi , only the 1% of the total space is being used

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to check your own userid/password combination; switch to a text terminal (ctrl+alt+f4 where f4 can be a few keys, but means ttty/terminal 4). try and login there. if you can login there, you username/password is valid & not the issue. next do a df -hi to check disk-free space (inc. inodes, but also called clusters/blocks). the gui cannot login if there is insufficient space. edit your post with the answers. – guiverc Oct 20 '17 at 0:59
    
Well, it is fixed. After doing what you told me I hit crtl + alt + f7 and it logged in. I tried that several times but never worked... – ivan roldan lusich Oct 20 '17 at 1:08
    
The "log in loop" problem can be due to a variety of issues unfortunately and hard to diagnose. Most common causes are wrong permissions on config files in $HOME usually to running graphical apps as root from the command line , configuration conflicts after system or package upgrades, or hardware problems (graphics card). – Panther Oct 20 '17 at 1:19

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