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I'm brand new to Ubuntu and I was trying to get multiple monitors to work. After messing around in the nvidia settings, I tried restarting lightdm and it made a noise and prompted me for my password. When I typed it in, it made a noise again and prompted me for my password again. And again, over and over.

I thought it might have been because I ran "sudo lightdm restart &". I restarted my computer but when it came back up, it was still doing this.

I can get at the command prompt but I can't get at the UI/X-Server (still learning the terminology).

How can I log in and actually get at the UI again without it just restarting immediately?

StrixVaria
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I was able to fix this by removing ~/.Xauthority.

Specifically, I ran:

sudo mv ~/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority.old

Just to keep it around in case it didn't work. It did work, though!

StrixVaria
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