Mint 13 Xfce boots to tty1
 

Hi,
all of a sudden my Mint 13 Xfce system boots to tty1 prompt. When I try to login as normal user the login fails. But I am able to login as root. After logging as root I can StartX.

can you then log out & log in - as you ?

Check the output of Something like that usually happens when you run out of space on your system partition.

Sorry I cannot login as myself i.e. using my userid in tty1 prompt. With userid as 'root' am able to login.

The system partition is 20 GB and around 15 GB is free..

Found a funny thing while logging as user in tty1 there is a message unable to CD to '/home/userid'.

Please post the output of and the content of your /etc/fstab file.

Here are the deteails
http://pastebin.com/XB8bzLMM

OK, that is weird. You have a separate /home-partition (which is mounted) and enough free space on all of your partitions. Usually when you have symptoms like you have either the /home-partition isn't accessible or the /-partition is full. The error message about not being able to cd to your home-directory indicates something like that.
As next step i would recommend to login as root and check the contents of the /home-partition. Is your user's home directory present? Which permissions are set for that directory?

My home directory is present. Permissions are perfectly fine.



I am suspecting that the system is messed up. May be just reinstall it.

Before doing that i would try to add a new user and look if you can login as that user. If that works then you don't need to re-install the system.

I created a new user id but with new userid it's the same issue. I am going ahead with new install.

I have puppy linux installed in the same machine. I had changed the UTC=yes to no in /etc/default/rcs file. I somehow suspect that messed up the system!!!
Anyway thanks a lot for all your help.

I just did a trial install in a spare partition and changed a file in /etc using Puppy. Now mint 13 boots to tty1. I am not sure if it's there in Ubuntu as well or it's mint specific.