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Dual boot- stuck in Ubuntu logged out screen
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Hi
Have a dual boot Windows-Ubuntu set up. Has been working fine for the past year. Primarily work in Ubunt (Mate 18.04LTS) but recently was in the Windows partition for a couple days. Anyways switched back tonight, formatted a new external SSD using Gparted and also created a mount point for it(not sure if this last step is my problem) When I reboot I am presented with the Ubuntu 'logged out' screen instead of automatically booting into Ubuntu Mate. And when I enter my pw, I am stuck in a loop. My screen goes black for a couple seconds then get the same pink logged out screen. Attached is a list of my Boot Priority volumes in BIOS. Tried switching the 2 Ubuntu volumes but no difference. I can boot back into Windows no problem. When I try and enter the command line using Ctrl+Alt3 I get an unrelated error to do with my hardware configuration (X99 board and Samsung NvMe SSD) "PCIe Bus Error, Bad DLLP". Can anyone help me get back into my Ubuntu Mate desktop again? |
Are you presented with a Grub menu when BIOS POST completes? If so, strike the E key. That allows you to append a 3 to the line that begins with linu. That should allow you to reach a login prompt. From that point, more diagnostic information can be acquired if needed. Fixing may be as simple as finding and changing the configuration file for the login manager. Likely that filename is /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. If so, change AutomaticLoginEnable=true to AutomaticLoginEnable=false. To make that edit requires superuser permission. If mc is installed, you can use it to both locate that file, and edit it.
Code:
sudo apt install mc |
Thanks!
When I tried to edit /etc/gdm/gdm/conf using $sudo nano /etc/gdm/gdm.conf I get an error that directory /etc/gdm does not exist. Tried suggestions here since this seems to be a common problem https://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-ubuntu-login-loop/ So my permissions check out. Guessing its something to do with gdm?? Tried installing from the command line twice but without any luck. Something about missing files in repository. Any help appreciated!! |
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