Login loop after upgrade to 13.10

Question

Ubuntu has upgraded to 13.10, but when I reboot I can't login, even when I try with the guest session. I am brought back to the login screen.

I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login. Then I remove the file ~/.Xautohrity and reboot. After that it can login from LightDM but a new error appears:

Could not acquire name on session bus

and when I reboot it can't login again.

How can I fix this? Note that I have another Desktop environment installed alongside Unity.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '13 at 19:53

I had a similar problem but fixed it by removing Cinnamon. If this is also the case for you, try the following: sudo apt-get remove --purge cinnamon* and then sudo apt-get autoremove

If you don't have cinnamon installed but any other desktop environment alongside Unity, try to uninstall those. (Gnome fallback should be fine though)

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 21 '13 at 16:07

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I solved by opening the terminal (Alt+Ctrl+T) and enter:

sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults --show-manual-login true

Restart the computer

edited Nov 21 '13 at 16:07

Braiam

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answered Nov 21 '13 at 14:13

Segaroma

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 12 '14 at 20:57

I had the same problem. I wasn't able to login to my user account then I logged in as guest and in terminal switched to my user account as I didn't know what is the password for guest account then typed this command and restart:

sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults --show-manual-login true

It will give you three options when you want to login again after a restart:

Your user account
Manual login by typing the user name and password
Guest

The 'manual login' option worked for me.

Login loop after upgrade to 13.10

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