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Unable login to my account from GUI interface, only as Guest. When trying to login, within a few seconds I'm sent back to the login screen. Further, after trying some fixes, when trying login as admin, login screen is not returning back, get only a blank screen and it does not proceed further. Can only Guest login. Login from tty4 terminal is OK.

.xsession-errors contains only these lines:

Can't save user-dirs.dirs
Script for ibus started at run_im.
Script for auto started at run_im.
Script for default started at run_im.
init:/home/username/.config/upstart: Unable to load configuration: Permission denied
init: dbus pre-start process (4902) terminated with status 1
Zanna
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I just had the same issue and found that the solution @minto posted as a comment worked for me, along with changing the .Xauthority and .ICEauthority permissions.

To summarize: 

sudo chown -R username:username /home/username

Then logout and reboot.

If that didn't work then check out SiddharthaRT's answer on changing .Xauthority and .ICEauthority permissions in answer to Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop.

Zanna
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