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I am new to this forum. Today morning I installed "skim" program which i used for chinese input. when my sytem was restarted for the second time, it went inside but the GUI login screen reappears even after giving the correct password!
Pls help
When you say that the login screen re-appeared does that mean you entered the password and were able to login then suddenly system logged you off and you were back to the login screen.
When you say that the login screen re-appeared does that mean you entered the password and were able to login then suddenly system logged you off and you were back to the login screen.
or
You were not at all able to login using GUI?
the plasm-desktop is not coming! when i enter the password again the login screen appears no matter how many time i try!!!
Sorry for the typo. What I wanted to say is, can you paste the output of cat /etc/inittab command so that we can have a look at your /etc/inittab file contents.
Also I wanted to know which Linux are you using? Is this CentOS, Ubuntu or any other flavor of Linux?
Distribution: Debian /Jessie/Stretch/Sid, Linux Mint DE
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I have had this a few times, but not with Kubuntu.
Try this:
When you see the login screen, press CTRL-ALT-F1
On the login prompt, login with your normal user name
Issue this command: cd /tmp
Make 100% sure your prompt changed to somthing ending in ..../tmp$
You must see the tmp$ otherwise do NOT proceed
Then sudo rm -Rf *
Reboot
Sorry for the typo. What I wanted to say is, can you paste the output of cat /etc/inittab command so that we can have a look at your /etc/inittab file contents.
Also I wanted to know which Linux are you using? Is this CentOS, Ubuntu or any other flavor of Linux?
I have had this a few times, but not with Kubuntu.
Try this:
When you see the login screen, press CTRL-ALT-F1
On the login prompt, login with your normal user name
Issue this command: cd /tmp
Make 100% sure your prompt changed to somthing ending in ..../tmp$
You must see the tmp$ otherwise do NOT proceed
Then sudo rm -Rf *
Reboot
jlinkels
Sorry Mate! you remedies did not work! Still the problem is there!!
Sorry for the typo. What I wanted to say is, can you paste the output of cat /etc/inittab command so that we can have a look at your /etc/inittab file contents.
Also I wanted to know which Linux are you using? Is this CentOS, Ubuntu or any other flavor of Linux?
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