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Ubuntu – Login loop after upgrading to 19.04

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I used the built-in upgrader to upgrade to 19.04 today, and I'm now stuck in a login loop. I have tried many solutions from forums, but nothing has worked. Is there something I'm missing or anything else I should try?

From what I've seen, I don't think that there is an Xauthority file on my computer. I'm on a Dell XPS 15 with a GTX 1050Ti Max-Q GPU, and a Core i7 processor. I also have a Windows dual boot, and while Ubuntu's my main OS, luckily almost everything is on GitHub, Google Drive or my Windows partition.

Results of ubuntu-drivers devices :

emil@emil-XPS-15-9570:~$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001C8Csv00001028sd0000087Cbc03sc02i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
driver   : nvidia-driver-418 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-driver-415 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-driver-396 - third-party free
driver   : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

Results of sudo systemctl start graphical.target :

Failed to start graphical-target.service: Unit graphical-target.service not found.

Best Answer

I had to disable the Extensions Gnome extension.

  1. Being at Login screen go to the second terminal (CTRL+ALT+F2)
  2. Login as your user there
  3. Execute gnome-shell-extension-tool -d extensions@abteil.org
  4. Restart the system or go back to the first terminal (CTRL+ALT+F1) with GUI Login screen and try to login again.

Please look at /var/log/syslog and check if you see some Gnome crash stacktrace.

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Ubuntu – Ubuntu regolith Login loop after 19.04 to 19.10 upgrade

Ok so if you have read this post after you installed the 19.10 update, then dont wworry can still fix it using option 2 from this link:

https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-desktop/wiki/HowTo:-Upgrade-to-Ubuntu-19.10-(Eoan-Ermine)

Connect laptop via cable LAN. first you will need to enter grub menu.

Press shift for old bios or press ECP for Ufei. then press ESC again when it says press any key.

once in go to the second option. Then boot to recovery. Then enable networking. then boot terminal. once your there follow option 2 instructions.

Every back to normal.

Thank you@Justice for Monica

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