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I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 soon after it is released. Today I messed something up with the Chinese input ibus, and I don't know if this is the reason at all, but when I reboot using sudo shutdown -r now, I cannot pass the login. I entered the correct password, but then the screen just went black, and then the login screen comes up again!

I have searched quite a few solutions from others, but nothing is working for me.

I have read

I tried to look at .xsession-error, but that file is empty on my computer.

I tried the suggestion of changing the ownership of .Xauthority, but my .Xauthority is not root initially. I also tried to delete it but that does not work either.

I did sudo apt-get remove ibus-pinyin in case it is the problem (but not likely).

I also tried sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm, but it does not work either. I also tried dpkg-reconfigure lightdm, but I was not able to see the effect.

Also, I looked at /var/crash, and I saw a file _usr_bin_xpad.1000.crash, which seems to record the crash occured at the time that I first encountered thr login loop problem. Yet I cannot find further clue of how to solve it. At the bottom of that file, it suggested to update several packages if the crash still occurs. I did so but it does not work either. These packages are krb5-locales, libgssapi-krb5-2, libk5crypto3, libkrb5-3, libkrb5support0, libprocps3, procps

Can someone save me...I dont wanna switch back to Windows

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zkytony
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I solved a similar problem by erasing the file "/etc/shadow.lock". I tried this, because I had no chance to create new users... There is a second lock-file, named "passwd.lock". Only removing this file did not solve the problem.

Maybe this could work to escape from the guest-session loop. I will test this solution with other computers, when this error appears again.

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