I have been a Linux (Ubuntu) user for over 5 years now, currently running Ubuntu 18.04 on my Acer laptop. I always put my laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down to resume from whatever I was doing quickly. Sometimes if I try restarting it, it boots to the advanced section saying some part of the disk is corrupt and requires I run fsck. I have never run into a major issue performing this operation until recently. After executing fsck on the /dev/sda4 (my main hard drive) I couldn't log in again . It became an infinite login loop. I tried every solution I found online but none worked. I created another user through tty and could successfully log into the new account, but not my own.
What else can I try?