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I'm not able to login even if the password is correct . Whenever I try to login it accepts the password but returns back to the login screen . Please help

LeonidMew
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bhushan kulkarni
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Switch to a terminal (ctrl+alt+f4) and try logging in. If you can login normally, you could be out of space (the GUI needs [temporary work] space to create [work] files that are deleted on logout).

Enter df -hl (disk free, human output, local drives only) and check especially for space in your $HOME (/home/user) directory/partition.

If it's full (0 or near 0 bytes free) you need to delete some files, then you can switch back to GUI and you'll find the gui will work. When the gui can't create the needed [temporary] files on login, the gui just returns you to the login screen as you describe without any message.

(there are other alternatives; but less likely in my experience. df -hi to check you inodes free, to gui permissions... but I'd try disk space first..)

guiverc
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At login, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to text console, and login there. Try following:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a

and if its not help, then:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 and try to login.

LeonidMew
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