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Ubunu failed to login to desktop and shows black screen command [closed]
am a Mac user and i downloaded Virtual Box version 7, and SEED Ubuntu 16.04 works just fine, but after i logged out from system and came back again to login, it fails then it displays a black Screen ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS login loop (logged out right after entering password)
Right before this happened, I was updating some packages using conda (and sudo), and also install some addons for jupyter notebook (no idea if any of that is related to my problem or not). Something ...
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Ubuntu login not working, Login always fails even if we enter the correct user name
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 in VirtualBox. On boot, the screen shows black after the Ubuntu loading screen.
So I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F2 to enter a command line login,
but when I enter my username and press ...
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Can’t logging after "sudo reboot" my ubuntu 16.04
I have a laptop (Lenovo E50) with, dual boot configuration of Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. I was in ubuntu trying to install pulsars software called "Presto", following the installation ...
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Asus Laptop Ubuntu 16.04 stuck at purple screen
All of a sudden today my Asus Laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 will not boot. After choosing "Ubuntu" at the grub menu, I get stuck at a purple screen (not displaying any logos, just purple color ...
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20.04 provides only 4 usable character screens (vs 6 on 16.04)
20.04 provides only 4 usable character screens (vs 6 on 16.04)
On 20.04 the login/GUI screen is on F2, F1 login/prompt to another GUI screen
and F7 is unusable, so I only have 4 character login ...
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Password cannot be accepted or input in non-graphical mode
I use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to switch to non-graphical mode. I only input my username called bryan and click Enter. The screen automatically shows that:
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS bryan-5810 tty1
bryan-5810 login:...
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usermod -d /home (user) makes a login loop on the user
I am using Ubuntu 16.04
I am in the root user and typed the command:
usermod -d /home test
I believe this changes the default location of test's home directory to /home. But then when I log into ...
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How to restart Ubuntu with startup graphics
How can I get the GUI working again on my messed-up my Ubuntu 16.04, Dell Lattitude 3540?
Currently, the only way to log in is in recovery mode, jumping to the root login terminal. This started ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 stuck in login from Parallels desktop access
I know a similar question has been asked before, but the proposed solutions do not work for me as I am accessing Ubuntu from my Mac by means of Parallels Desktop.
The login worked fine until a couple ...
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Computer reboots itself after login - Ubuntu 16.04
I have a really weird problem:
I have an Ubuntu 16.04.5 Desktop with two users, one regular and one with sudo privileges.
After I turn on the PC, it boots to the LightDM Login. If I log in to the ...
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What domain users have or have not logged into my Ubuntu VM?
I have a VM with Ubuntu 16.04.1 on it dedicated to be a 2 factor authentication server for Horizon View. It is attached to my windows domain, and users login via SSH to activate their 2 FA. I would ...
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Persistent Login loop 16.04.3
Received workstation with Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS preinstalled from Dell.
Computer: Dell Precision 3630
Login loop immediately upon open box.
ctrl alt F1 works and I have access to 2 accounts I created ...
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Can't login to ubuntu-16.04.5-server-i386 GUI with correct password on windows 8.1 virtaul machine unable to login to GUI with correct password [duplicate]
Password - There are no words
Login Password - There are no words Problem in Ubuntu server 16.04.5 LTS GUI
image Can't login to ubuntu-16.04.5-server-i386 GUI with correct password
on windows 8.1 ...
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Can't login after suspend in Ubuntu 16.04
I have dual booted my system with Ubuntu 16.04. Whenever I close the lid of my laptop and open it I can't login at all.
I can use mouse on login screen but can't type anything. Then I need to restart ...
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Black screen after reinstalling Nvidia graphics card
After being unable to log in to the system (login loop), I followed the instructions in Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop, in both the 2 most popular replies since the first one didn't work. Now after ...
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Ubuntu MATE took over start up [duplicate]
I was trying out different desktop environments on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and ran sudo apt install ubuntu-mate-desktop. It worked, but when I restarted my computer Ubuntu MATE took over start up and the ...
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16.04 stuck in login loop after installing CUDA toolkit 10.1
Preface: I am running Ubuntu 16.04 (kernel 4.15.0) in an ESXi virtual machine (version 6.7), and using PCI passthrough for a GTX 1080Ti. I am attempting to install the CUDA 10.1 toolkit, with Nvidia-...
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Unable to log in to ubuntu 16.04 after installing wifi adapter driver
I installed WiFi driver for my TP-Link adapter by using rtl8192cu-fixes.
After reboot, suddenly I am unable to log in into my ubuntu However, I can log in by using terminal.
I run the recovery mode ...
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Authentication error at login after online upgrade to 18.04
I tried an online upgrade from 16.04.2 to 18.04.2 in February 2019, but have never been able to get beyond the initial GUI log-in that comes after grub, due to it always showing Authentication error.
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Ubuntu 16.04 hangs at “Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes.”
As per the title, I am facing this issue.
Followed the top answer in the following link:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252603/debian-jessie-boot-hangs-at-started-update-utmp-about-system-...
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Only tty4 works in Ubuntu and that too remains busy reporting something
I am not able to switch on to other tty's except tty4. When I switch over to tty4, it's always busy reporting somthing like i2c_hid i2c_hid_get_input: incomplete report.
Reason that I need to ...
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Cannot log into Xubuntu
I took my wife's computer today to do a fresh install of 18.04 LTS. (Her machine has 16.04.) First thing I did was get her to set a new password (of my choosing) so that I didn't have to keep running ...
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issues with DKMS while installing nvidia drivers on ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
I'm unable to install Nvidia driver, and got stuck in a login loop after trying to install the Nvidia driver from ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa. I tried installing version 396, but I am not able to ...
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plz Help me Login loop 16.04
plz someone help me. I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and my graphic card GTX 960M so I installed Version : 410.93
I installed NVIDIA driver and rebooted.
then I get stuck in login loop.
I found other people'...
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How to fix GDM3 Login loop (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
I have 4 options for desktop environment:
System default
GNOME
GNOME Flashback (compiz)
GNOME Flashback (metacity)
If I select any of the last 3 I get in a login loop. However, if I select System ...
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Stuck in login loop in Ubuntu 16.04 after installing NVIDIA
I recently updated my Linux kernel in Ubuntu 16.04 to 4.20.6 because of wifi issue. Now whenever I try installing NVIDIA drivers and reboot, I get stuck in login loop. Here is what Additional Drivers ...
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TTY doesn't wait for password
I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F3 I get the terminal which prompts for the username. When I type my username and press Enter, it doesn't wait for my password (its as if I ...
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Stuck in login loop Ubuntu 16.04
I need some advice for working towards a resolution to my current login loop issue in Ubuntu Desktop 16.04. When I try to sign in locally, after I input the correct password, the gui prompts for the ...
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Cannot loging because of ubuntu--vg-root: clean - Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS
After a reboot I could not log back in via the GUI. I got the black screen with a flash of text saying:
WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
WARNING: Failed to ...
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SSH close immediatly after Login
SSH close immediatly after Login, i can't login into ubuntu server This is a DUMP after last login.
Last login: Mon Nov 12 15:36:13 2018 from SERVER
debug3: receive packet: type 98
debug1: ...
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Ubuntu login loop reappears after every reboot, how to fix it?
I tried everything here but nothing helped. What I found helped is to reinstall manually the proprietary nvidia driver(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_63-390.87.run). But only until the next restart. After that I am ...
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Login loop likely due to NVIDIA drivers with CUDA installed
A few days ago I ran a sudo apt update + upgrade on my Ubuntu 16.04. I had not done so for about 2 months. In the meantime, I had changed my graphics card from a GTX 1060 to a GTX 1070.
When today I ...
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How to check user log details from x month to y month? [duplicate]
If I was logged into my user account, then how can I check the login details such as date, time etc using terminal?
Also please tell me, if I want to check the log details of the previous month or ...
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Ubuntu logs me back in immediately after logout [closed]
A few days ago I noticed that when I log out of Ubuntu 16, the screens go black and then I am immediately logged back in again. I do not have autologin enabled.
Observations of other strange ...
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How to remove XFCE login wallpaper
I made the terrible mistake of installing xubuntu-desktop. Following this answer I was able to purge almost all XFCE related components. However, the bright blue mouse-themed wallpaper is still shown ...
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Login Screen Changed and Login not working
Actually, in the initial case, my ctrl and shift button were not working properly, so I followed the answers posted in this link:
Shift keys not working properly,
I run the following commands:
sudo ...
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ssh login with public key stopped work in Ubuntu 16.04.4
I have two servers, one of them runs Ubuntu 14, another one runs 16.04.4. I'm trying to log in via ssh (Windows, Putty + Pageant) as a simple user, not as root. /etc/ssh/sshd_config files are ...
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login loop problem after installing nvidia graphics driver [duplicate]
i have tried adding nouveau blacklisting problem and I also tried it in ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, 14.04 but nothing worked for me.
but whenever I install the nvidia driver and restart, it gets into login ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 boots without asking to log in
Recently my Ubuntu 16.04 starts to boot each time without asking me to log in. I would like to enforce entering password before starting every session, how to do this?
Edit: In the System settings -> ...
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When logging in via SSH, network drops [duplicate]
I am noticing this odd behavior in Ubuntu 16.04 desktop. I have open-ssh installed and working. But in one odd scenario, I noticed a few things break down.
Here is a breakdown:
When I am already ...
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Cannot login to Ubuntu 16.04 after updating
I use Ubuntu 16.04 and installed NVIDIA driver. Today after doing automatically proposed update, I cannot login to Ubuntu. I tried these ways:
deleting NVIDIA or deleting /home/*/.Xauthority files (...
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Reboot through SSH not back online [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 16 desktop, but I do plan to SSH into my machine just as much, if not more, than I use it as a desktop.
I am noticing that when I issue an sudo reboot command while I am SSH'd in, ...
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How to change login screen background in 16.04LTS? [duplicate]
I am a beginner. Is there any easy way to change the login screen in linux 16.04LTS? I read the other answers already to no avail. Also, I'm not able to bring another file in the backgrounds folder-, ...
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internet and login spontaneously crash
I use 16.04 LTS, and about 2 hours or so after startup, it seems the Internet and the ability to login both crash.
As for the Internet:
I can reach localhost, but pinging the outside world yields "...
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Unity X Server not active without physical login
I'm using my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Unity 7.4.5 as a remote server as well as a desktop computer. Unfortunately, when I reboot Ubuntu, I can't get X server benchmarks to run without physically going to ...
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Drumroll sound not working in Ubuntu 16.04
Whenever I login into my Ubuntu system, I don't hear the welcome drumroll sound effect, even though I get to hear it if I try to close Firefox. All other sounds are working. I used to hear it earlier, ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS = 5 desktop environments
I'm testing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Unity to 18.04 LTS upgrade. After rebooting The first thing I notice is five different desktop environments available at sign in:
I assume the first option is GNOME ...
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XUbuntu 16.04 cannot detect Video card correctly [duplicate]
Update:
It seems infinite login is a Ubuntu 16.04 problem. There is no infinite login on Xubuntu 16.04, but I will encounter Nvidia card problem described below.
I also tried Ubuntu 17.10. Ubuntu ...
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Setting up SSH authentication on openLDAP server
I have setup an Ubuntu 16.04 openLDAP server and want to allow LDAP users to login locally with SSH (to commit to a repository etc.) with libnss and pam_ldap.so.
Every time I login via ssh I get ...
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