I've managed to break my computer yet again, and this time, all of unity for my user is horribly corrupted. This happened when I tried fixing a problem I've had for a few moths with my Nvidia card using the instructions here. I then rebooted, but when I tried to log in, it would always do the "I'm logging in for you" spinning circle (sorry for my terrible description), and then it would dump me back into the login page (no "incorrect password" message, either). I purged and re-installed all Nvidia packages, but no luck. I then tried tried to see what was happening by using startx in a tty, but I got an error about access to .Xauthority timing out. I fixed that issue by making a new .Xauthority and reinstalling unity and ubuntu-desktop. Fixed that issue, then another popped up, which was there was no unity interface. Turns out unity got disabled, so I enabled it using compiz manager, but it still didn't work. Finally, I ran these two commands sudo dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ and setsid unity recommended somewhere (I've gone through way too many site today) and it works for one boot and the menu bar doesn't show up. I was able to log in as a different user just fine, so this seems to be a problem just with that one user. I have no idea what to do next and any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If this is only happening with one user, log in as the user that's still working and then create a new user with the same name as the first user but with a 2 added to it. (As example user names, the next section will use user and user2. Substitute this with your real user names)
Now,
- Open the file manager
- Browse to the
/home/userdirectory - Copy (don't move!) all the files from Downloads to
/home/user2/Downloads - Check you did a good job.
- Now delete
/home/user/Downloads - Go back to step 3 and repeat for Documents, Videos, ...
- In a terminal type the following command:
deluser user --remove-home - Log in as user2
Sit back, relax and smile!
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