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Ubuntu – Can’t login to the account

login

after typing my password and press enter
it takes me back to the page and ask to me to enter my password again
I can login as a guest
and am able to login in the terminal ( ctrl+alt+F1 )

but not with the graphical interface

Best Answer

When logged in to the terminal look for a file in home directory called .Xauthority (hidden file) use ls -al. If the file is owned by root use sudo chown <user>:<user> .Xauthority.

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Ubuntu – Can’t login to the user account

I have solved this issue by changing the ownership of .Xauthority.

sudo chown user:user ~/.Xauthority

Change user with your username. Or you can just delete .Xauthority using nautilus if you can login to graphical session (you can install other display manager such as GDM to login, the problem lies in LightDM), or you can delete it via terminal (CTRL+ALT+F1).

rm ~/.Xauthority
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