Black screen at login

[fatharraxman]

I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 and it was a little bet heavy on my 1 gb ram mini notebook, so I went on to cinnamon and installed gnome classic as well, I observed that I could not log in to defalt unity desck top, when I write my password on that scerrn it blinck and a black screen comes on as if it will enter me into it then it return back to log in screen again without any understanding as if the system is mad of me using cinnamon. any help please?

[protoss96]

If the prompt is asking you for username and password just login, then run this command:

startx

Are you seeing something graphical?

[fantab]

For 1Gb RAM all, Unity, Cinnamon and Gnome-Classic, will be heavy. Try Xubuntu or Lubuntu.

[deadflowr]

Are you using the cinnamon-stable ppa by chance.
If so, it is a known issue that the version in the ppa causes problems with unity(breakage).
http://askubuntu.com/questions/36139...-13-10-desktop

I don't know if a bug report is out on this, but you can go to launchpad to find out.

[fatharraxman]

solved by:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/36139...-13-10-desktop
and:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/36077...-2-0-installed
and:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/36077...-2-0-installed

Thank you