Ubuntu 11.10 - cannot load profile

[Starmaster]

Hi!

After Ubuntu upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 cannot load my profile. Login screen appears, then I enter password for my profile, screen blinks to black and then again to login screen. Although I can start guest session with Unity. Also, restart button doesn't work under login screen. With Ctrl+Alt+F1 I can load my profile in terminal.

Any suggestion on this issue?

Thanks in advance!

[phiphi]

Have the same issue. found no further info till now.
I can login with the other profile I have on the same machine. That one I used almost never.

Can you login if you create a new account? sudo adduser ?

[phiphi]

I found out that the problem was the .Xauthority file in the home folder:

[+967.58s] WARNING: Failed to write authority: Error opening file '/home/phiphi/.Xauthority': Permission denied

It was owned by root. I deleted it and could login again.

[phiphi]

now i found also this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...dm/+bug/871667

[Starmaster]

Thanks, this worked for me!

ls -Shla | grep "Xauthority"

showed me 3 files. I deleted .Xauthority. After couple of reboots my profile started to load! Thanks!

[justinwood]

Alright, everything said so far mirrors my experience, but how exactly do I go about deleting Xauthority?

[Starmaster]

Alright, everything said so far mirrors my experience, but how exactly do I go about deleting Xauthority?

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 when you're on login screen. Then login under your profile. The default directory will be your home directory. Then simply do:

sudo rm .Xauthority

sudo shutdown -r now

Then you should be able to login under your profile.

[outofthecave]

I'm having the same problem. I upgraded Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal to 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and now I cannot login to my user account. I can login as root or guest. When I try to login to my account, the screen turns black with white writing on it, which looks like the last screen when Ubuntu is shutting down. Unfortunately, I cannot read the text; it's too fast. Then, the login screen appears again.
There was no .Xauthority file in my home directory, so I copied that of root and changed ownership of it to myself. When I login now it takes ages and I get an error message "Could not update ICEauthority file /home/<username>/.ICEauthority" with only a "logout" button.
I can login to my account from a text terminal (e.g., tty1 at Ctrl+Alt+F1).
Edit: I own .Xauthority and I can chown and chmod it, but I cannot mv or rm it. How come this?

[Ditirambe]

Hello

same problem here, I've tried to find the file .Xauthority logging in as admin in CTRL+ALT+F1 but without success.Is it possible I don't have that file?when I had Ubuntu 11.04 I already had problems with this file every time I was logging in, not sure if finally I deleted

Thanks in advance for your support

[justinwood]

Thank you so much! My computer is working great now! You guys always follow through, thank you thank you.