Answer by Shivam saini for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
In my case, I looked at ~/.xsession-errors and found the problem was actually at ~/.profile with a missing binary which wasn't needed anymore.I deleted the line and restarted lightdm with sudo...
View ArticleAnswer by Suresh Shettigar for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
I ran into a similar problem on both my office linux installation and home machine. I installed a program which required compilation and the executable file was in the bin directory of the program's...
View ArticleAnswer by Error404 for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
20.04 and above:Opening a consoleTo open a console, you can press Ctrl + Alt + f5 or boot into grub recovery mode.Method #1 Removing Old Configuration files.As System 76 support says in their article,...
View ArticleAnswer by Lu Kas for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
There is another possible cause for this problem not covered in the other answers: If your homefolder is encrypted and you changed the user password without changing the encryption password.In this...
View ArticleAnswer by 0x8BADF00D for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
Solved using these commands: sudo apt purge gdm3 sudo reboot sudo apt install gdm3 sudo service gdm start
View ArticleAnswer by vanillaSugar for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
If you recently installed indicator-multiload, uninstall it.This problem happened to me after I installed indicator-multiload, so uninstalling it fixed the problem.
View ArticleAnswer by blue_chip for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
In my case, this was caused by a newly installed software through the Software center (or whatever its called) called Brightness Control (Xrandr). So I logged into Ubuntu using Unity from the logging...
View ArticleAnswer by anonymous2 for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
I'm sure nobody except someone with an extreme case of the issue will see this, but if you do... maybe this will help! :)Adding to the current answers - and building off of them to a large extent, I...
View ArticleAnswer by daniel.heydebreck for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
If you cannot log in, the disk/partition of your home folder might be full.To find out if your disk/partition is full: press Ctrl+Alt+F3, login and type df. You get information on the used disk space.
View ArticleAnswer by Rob Rutten for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
I got into the login loop by running the software updater for 18.04 on Jan 30 2019. It was very hard to get into terminal mode per Ctrl+Alt+F1 or F2 or F3, succeeding typically only after a number of...
View ArticleAnswer by Fifi Cek for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
GNOME-Shell extensions installed to user's profile were apparently causing the login-loop in case of Bionic Beaver installation here.User is able to again successfully login to its graphical...
View ArticleAnswer by hb0 for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
Same problem on multiple RPIs (version 2B and 3). Solution:check the .xsession-errors file: cat ~/.xsession-errors. Mine showed:Xsession: X session started for pi at ****Xsession: unable to start X...
View ArticleAnswer by Bhargav Chereddy for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
I have been through this problem multiple times and it has been a different issue each time. One of the following issues could have caused your problem and you could use the command line interface by...
View ArticleAnswer by Philipp Wrann for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
I had a similar issue recently. Ubuntu made some updates and i got this login-loop that seemed to be related to lightdm.I finally managed to solve the issue after trying several things.I suspect amdgpu...
View ArticleAnswer by rahul for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
After reading James answer , I realized I had changed the user password by logging in as root. I knew the old password, so I logged in as root again ( to login as root press ctrl+alt+F3 give the...
View ArticleAnswer by Organic Marble for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
I found another way to cause a login loop not covered by any of these answers, yay me!I had a script to set up my dual monitors that was referenced in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf as a...
View ArticleAnswer by JREAM for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
Regarding Gnome Users:I tried all of these optionals to no avail. Likely due to using Gnome as my preferred UI. After looking at Sooth's Answer I was able to get it to login with the ubuntu and xubuntu...
View ArticleAnswer by Akavall for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
For me configuration of some packages was off, so running (after ctrl+alt+F3):sudo dpkg --configure -afixed the problem.
View ArticleAnswer by M K for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
In my case, my user folder somehow got chown'ed by root! The answer lies in .Xauthority and other files in your home folder; if user config data can't be opened read/write, lightdm will fail.I simply...
View ArticleAnswer by Silvia for Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop
I've experienced this issue on a Xenial installed on a usb key, mounted on a HD-less laptop, running unity and gnome-flashback.Tried about every workaround in here without success, then remembered that...
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