Cannot login into graphical session, possible reasons?
by SuSE_Lamer from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6Q7XE)
Hello dear community,
I have following situation: my parents use laptop (Dell Inspiron) with Linux Mint. They usually log into Xfce session. Last week while they used it, local outage happened, so they had no chance to shutdown laptop properly. Since that they cannot login anymore: when they enter a password, login process starts, and then login screen appears again.
Since they live quite far, I tried to help them today on telephone. We tested login with MATE session (instead of Xfce) and with a "root"/administrator account - same behaviour.
I searched for info on Internet, and found some posts speaking about "login loops". But they relate in to certain window manager and are rather old - 2017 and 2018. Can somebody give me a hint, where I should start to search for a solution? Is it X11-/graphical server issue or Xfce-/Mate-issue?
Update: I also found another reason: full disk prevents from starting new X11 session. My parents have 120 GB HDD, and it had approximately 50% free when I saw a laptop last time a couple of months ago. Is it really a possible reason?
I would appreciate any hint.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards from Hamburg.
I have following situation: my parents use laptop (Dell Inspiron) with Linux Mint. They usually log into Xfce session. Last week while they used it, local outage happened, so they had no chance to shutdown laptop properly. Since that they cannot login anymore: when they enter a password, login process starts, and then login screen appears again.
Since they live quite far, I tried to help them today on telephone. We tested login with MATE session (instead of Xfce) and with a "root"/administrator account - same behaviour.
I searched for info on Internet, and found some posts speaking about "login loops". But they relate in to certain window manager and are rather old - 2017 and 2018. Can somebody give me a hint, where I should start to search for a solution? Is it X11-/graphical server issue or Xfce-/Mate-issue?
Update: I also found another reason: full disk prevents from starting new X11 session. My parents have 120 GB HDD, and it had approximately 50% free when I saw a laptop last time a couple of months ago. Is it really a possible reason?
I would appreciate any hint.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards from Hamburg.