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I am running kubuntu 14.04.

Recently as part of a python development project changed the DM to xdm. Since then I have not been able to get the system to let me back past the login page.

To be precise, if I enter my password it just blacks the screen then presents me with the Login page again.

I can raise a command line and have tried running dpkg-reconfigure lightdm, which seems to have worked, but to no avail.

I have also run apt-get autoremove, apt-get clean etc in order to try and clean the system of any broken packages, redundancies etc. that might be causing problems.

I tried: 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a

and restarted...same thing

If I try to start the system and then ESC during startup the system seems to be looping over the same block of instructions.

I have looked at comments for earlier versions of k/Ubuntu but can't find anything that sorts this. Hence the new question.

Suggestions, please? ls -al $HOME/{.ICE,.X}authority

gives

-rw------- 1 peter peter 29018 SEp 26 12:18 /home/peter/.ICEauthority

-rw-rw-r-- 1 peter root 155 Sep 26 12:18 /home/peter/.Xauthority

(After the changes described below)

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I've been using Ubuntu since 2006. From 2005 to 2006 I exclusively used Kubuntu. Before that tried various other types of linux. I like the look and feel of Kubuntu, but I didn't like how often it would crash in the most unpredictable ways. Since then I've tried several KDE programs under Ubuntu, and time and again these KDE applications are visually appealing buggy as hell. Do yourself a favor, upgrade to the REAL ubuntu. KDE? Just say NO!

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