Stuck in login loop after apt-get autoremove command

max_arbit · 06-08-2015, 08:25 PM

Hi,

Yesterday, when I was installing certain packages, I saw that apt-get throw a message saying there were old kernels that I could remove use the "apt-get autoremove" command. I didn't pay much attention and just ended up doing it anyway. However, I am stuck in a login loop ever since.

I did a google and have tried a number of things - removing the .Xauthority file, checking its permission (which were OK BTW), removing .kde directory, sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm etc. Nothing seems to work so far.

I can login to the terminal and if I do a startx from the terminal, that works. However, I try to login using the default login screen presented upon boot, it just throws me back to the same screen and I am unable to determine or fix why this is happening.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

fatmac · 06-09-2015, 12:51 PM

You could maybe try

Code:

sudo apt-get -f install

which should install anything that is missing.

max_arbit · 06-09-2015, 07:32 PM

I did that and I think there were no broken packages:

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

max_arbit · 06-12-2015, 10:07 AM

Are there any other ideas as to what might be wrong?