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I updated my system from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 and after updating when I am starting my machine it's asking me for login password and when I am typing the correct password one blank screen appears and it's again asking me for the password and the same thing happening again and again. I saw some answers on the internet for this problem and everyone says to press Ctrl + Alt + F1 on login screen to enter into console and follow some commands as they mentioned but whenever I am pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 or F2,F3,.....,F9 nothing is happening and I can't see any console and I am still on the login page. Please help me guys to get rid of this problem. I will be very happy if you can help me

heynnema
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Ram Maheshwari
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A common reason for login loops...

If you've been starting graphic applications from the terminal using sudo, that's what probably caused your problem. Always use sudo -H.

  • boot to the GRUB menu
  • choose Advanced Options
  • choose Recovery mode
  • choose Root access

  • at the # prompt, type:

     - sudo mount -o remount,rw / # remount the disk as rw

     - cd /home/your_username # change directory

     - ls -al .*thority* # list some files

You should see something like this...

-rw------- 1 your_username your_username 407910 Nov  2 08:56 .ICEauthority
-rw------- 1 your_username your_username     58 Jun 23  2017 .Xauthority

If it DOES NOT show -rw------- then...

  • sudo chmod 600 .*thority* # change file protection

If it DOES SHOW root root then...

  • sudo chown your_username:your_username .*thority* # change file ownership

  • reboot # reboot the computer

Reboot and see if you can log in.

heynnema
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