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Could not get a login screen at first after upgrading from 16.04. Changed to lightdm and now have a login screen but it seems to be in a loop. I get a flash of the desktop and then it returns to the login screen This is the same whether I use Ubuntu or Wayland or Unity environment

Any help will be appreciated.

Anton
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Press Ctrl+Alt+F3 and type this command:

chown $USER:$USER .Xauthority
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Eraldo Guri
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If you have another machine try to connect via SSH ssh your_problematic_box_ip Then run tail -f /var/log/syslog in that terminal to see what is going on as you try to login. In my case I have run sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 and in that screen have chosen lightgdm as my server and then rebooted. I was able to log in normally after that reboot.

Diego
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