On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Karamvir Dhanoa <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Last night before that I was trying various commands on terminal including startx with sudo. >From an answer posted on askubuntu that was the real cause. the ~/.Xauthority file was owned by root due to executing startx with sudo privilege. So I change the ownership using 'sudo chown user ~/.Xauthority' where user is a username of standard uder account. And problem is solved! Thank you all! > 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. > > -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://www.rootkea.wordpress.com https://www.github.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.
