Same thing happened to me a couple of days ago. The problem in my case was that the lightdm had stopped working, so I had to switch to gdm. Follow these steps :
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 and login manually by providing username and password. 2. Type: *sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm* 3. Choose gdm from the menu and exit. Then reboot. If gdm doesn't show, install it using *sudo apt-get install gdm* and repeat step 2 and 3. regards Karamvir Dhanoa On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Avinash Sonawane <[email protected]>wrote: > I am using Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 on intel machine. > > From last 2 days I am unable to logged in standard user (non root) > account. Initially the Ubuntu gets booted and then it shows the login > screen. Now on this screen as soon as I enter my password and press > return key the screen goes blank (complete dark black) for a second > and again login screen is shown. It happens in such a way that it > seems like I gets logged in to my account for a sec and then suddenly > some kind of service throws me out of it. Any ways I can logged into > root account. So that's what I am using at the moment. > > Yeah! I know since I have the root access I can simply delete that > standard user account and then create a newer one. But I don't like to > lose my configurations of that account. So please suggest some way to > restore the above mentioned account. > -- > Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) > PICT, Pune > http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com > https://www.github.com/rootkea > https://www.twitter.com/rootkea > https://www.facebook.com/rootkea > > -- > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
