It would appear I'm not the only one but I haven't seen any answers on similar posts that work. Wondering if anyone knows the issue. Latest kernel 79. Tried reinstalling lightdm and tried gdm, no luck. Plenty of space so not the issue.
All login attempts has me back at the login screen on any user. Any help would be great. Thanks.
If I upgrade to 15.04 from 14.04, could that perhaps fix the problem? Hopeful.
It could be porblem with .Xauthority i.e x-org.Log in using terminal(Ctrl+Alt+F3 from login screen) and then change permission of your home .Xauthority
chown username:username .Xauthority
There could lot of reasons for login loop. During last 6-8 months i have experienced it when i did something wrong. Undoing that operation or fixing the root cause fixes the login loop most of the time. One such login loop issue is described here
which was due to nvidia driver issue. I have provided details in terms of how to fix it.
May be you can recollect and undo the actions which has caused this to fix it. Better to do Ctrl+Alt+F1(F1 to F6) and go to terminal and try looking under /var/log directory to find out what is causing it.
If it is a fairly new ubuntu install may be you can try 14.04 LTS or stable release all over again(new install) to fix it. Some times that's the best choice also.
In my other machine - i fixed it with reinstall only
