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Old 04-20-2014, 07:21 AM   #1
khaz
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Suddenly, I can't log into my session anymore?


Distribution: Elementary OS Luna (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) x64

The computer starts and bring the login screen seemingly without error. If I input my password and hit Enter, the screen flashes black with some text on it, then the login screen comes back. I can't read anything on what may be error messages as it's too brief. It does look similar to the text I have when I shutdown properly.

My session and any other, including guest, are unavailable this way.

I can log into TTY and do whatever needs to be done. When I do login with the command line, no error is printed. I read somewhere on the internet that .xsession-errors may hold a clue as to what may be broken, but I can't decipher it. You can find it here.

I tried using the previous kernel, but it didn't help.

Before it was broken I wanted to connect an ipad to the computer and solve the trust bug. Using the package provided gave me a dependency problem: libusbmuxd2 couldn't be installed on my system, and I went out of my way to download and install an incorrect version of it. It was obviously a dumb move but I'm surprised it broke my system as much as it did. I removed the packages as best as I could but it didn't solve the problem.

I am now clueless as to what I can do. What do you think?
 
Old 04-21-2014, 12:00 AM   #2
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From the error messages it seems your system is very unhappy with the state of Gnome. Gnome is what you use for a desktop environment, yes? One possibility would be to reinstall gnome and see if that solves the problem.
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Old 04-28-2014, 05:20 AM   #3
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Well, elementaryOS doesn't use Gnome so I'm not quite sure it would solve my problem. From what I can gather from blinking very quickly at the error message it seems the OS can't write something. Is there any place where I can gather log of what's happening at session close (as it seems this is what I'm witnessing, my session closing with errors)
 
Old 04-28-2014, 05:44 AM   #4
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Then I don't understand why the error messages contain repeated references to a gnome-settings-daemon. Do you?
If you're not using gnome then what DE are you using?
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Old 04-28-2014, 05:50 AM   #5
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It's Pantheon, a new DE specifically made for this project.
 
Old 04-28-2014, 10:43 AM   #6
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Same advice: try a reinstall and see if that changes something. Is it possible that Pantheon is buggy?
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