How to fix ubuntu login loop [ quick tutorial ]
Why Ask Ubuntu recommends it
Ask Ubuntu users link it when they are stuck in a login loop and want a quick, step-by-step terminal fix to try.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2017 to 2018.
What it is
A very short screen-recorded tutorial from 2015 showing how to fix the LightDM login loop on Ubuntu, where entering the correct password just returns you to the login screen. It is presented by Alok Yadav and backed by a blog post with the written steps.
What people said
Recommends kim code · 2018-01 · Ask Ubuntu · on “system program problem detected error when log in screen”
seems like my problem is little bit different than other people I found the error 'system program problem detected' in log in page. and my original password did not recognized by the system. in this situation how should I access to the terminal and fix this issue? > (and also mouse point get really slow in the log in page) ===================solution============================= I did not tried this solution yet but this might be the answer [this video]
Cites bit_scientist · 2017-01 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Need a solution to a blinking screen”
I have been facing the terrible problem to get to my Ubuntu desktop. I posted several questions and got several suggestions. To keep the track let me write down all the process I have been through: To start with, I have a MSI gaming laptop: Intel(R) Core i7-6820HK CPU 2.7GHz, 16GB RAM, Windows 10, 64x, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M. About two weeks ago I installed Ubuntu 16.04 as a dual-boot together with Win 10. The obstacles I had during the installation were: There was a blank-purple screen: to solve it I set nomodeset and went on... There was no option "install Ubuntu alongside windows 10", I chose something else following the suggestions from this site... It directed me to partition the disks
Cites bit_scientist · 2017-01 · Ask Ubuntu · on “nothing helps to solve login loop”
I am on Ubuntu 16.04 installed alongside windows 10 using Something else in installation process. Recently I have installed Cuda 8.0.44 and cuDNN v5.1 Library for Linux to learn Tensorflow with GPU support. I was logging in without any failure, but today it got stuck. I wanted to install Sublimetext and followed the tutorial given in Youtube. I installed synaptic package manager and reload it as shown in the tutorial. But the Reload failed. I thought rebooting might help and restarted the device, since then I cant log in to my desktop. I tried several ways to solve the issue such as: this from Askubuntu [LINK] and this from Youtube [this video] In fact, there was a quick Nvidia window for, say, a
Cites J.R. · 2018-08 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Login loop after update”
I installed the latest updates for 18.04 then restarted to apply the updates. When I tried to login it would just return to the login page again. I tried the instructions from this video [this video] and from this post Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop [LINK] So when i do ctrl+alt+f3, login, run 'ls -la' then run 'sudo chown username:username .Xauthority' it just says 'chown: cannot access '.Xauthority' : no such file or directory' I dont know what to do next.