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can't signin to ubuntu due to sign-in loop
I am experiencing couple of errors on my ubuntu machine from the booting process to the sign in screen.
My Ubuntu is in emergency mode. Whenever I bootup my machine it shows the below message
You ...
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Black Screen on Login After Installing Ubuntu 24.04 - nvidia
I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 on my system and performed all the available updates. However, I’m encountering a frustrating issue every time I reboot. When I reach the login screen, my primary ...
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Gnome / OpenBox not working as display manager but lxqt / Lubuntu is
I need Gnome as my display manager. So this is a strange case.
I used to be a windows user but then I switched to Ubuntu and was using Gnome as usual. Everything was fine but one day I installed an ...
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remove time lock with yubikey
Ubuntu 23.10:
After 5 incorrect password entries, the entry is blocked for a certain period of time. I would like to be able to remove this time lock with the yubikey so that I can enter a password ...
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Unable to login to Ubuntu 24.04
I'm unable to login to Ubuntu 24.04. When trying to login I get this screen.
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Yubikey inserted always asking for smart card login and no longer for password
I'm using Ubuntu 23.10. My company provided me a Yubikey for VPN access and everything works fine. However whenever I turn my pc on, the gdm screen only asks for smart card login (and no longer for ...
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Center the login screen on Ubuntu 23.10
Since I got my Ubuntu 23.10 installed the login screen text box stays on the left, whereas I believe it should be in the center of the screen. Here is a picture of my login screen:
I don't know if ...
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Black screen after disk login
I tried logging into my laptop and after I unlock the disk I get a screen with text that appears for seconds and then a black screen. I have tried to open the terminal using ctrl + alt + f2/f4/F5 etc ...
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After entering the password and hitting enter the screen is blurred
Ubuntu boots normally and reaches the login screen. After entering the password and hitting enter, screen goes blurred. Is there any way to troubleshoot this problem?
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Gnome error during login
At the time of login in Ubuntu 23.10 & gnome 45.1, I'm faced with this screen.
after repeated attempts of logging-out & restarting, it finally lets me in.
I tried to pull some logs using:
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etc/update-motd.d added script which executes. But after change the old version is being executed
My script executes OK. But when I altered it on login the old one is still executing instead of the amended one. Do I need to refresh/restart something (except system :) ) for my changes to be ...
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Ubuntu login screen seems like 22.04 after updating to 23.04
I updated Ubuntu 22.04 to 23.04. But after booting up. The login screen seems like it is from 22.04. When I suspend and see the login page it seems like 23.04. And the graphics of buttons at login ...
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All users not visible after screen lock. Only logged in user is visible
When i lock screen from top right pull down menu. I am not able to login into other users as rest of users are not visible. When I press ctrl alt f1 while logged in I sent to black screen with a ...
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super + space not working in login page
on the login page, changing the keyboard language is not possible with super + space shortcut. by pressing super + space it shows changing language popup but does not affect keyboard language.
also in ...
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Unable to login, blank screen does not revive, after upgrade to 22.04
Yesterday I attempted an OS upgrade from Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS. The machine being upgraded was a new Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10. Following the upgrade I have two severe problems ...
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Loop login - /tmp permission issue
I am facing loop login issue on Ubuntu 22.10.
I was able to log into the shell and observed the following /tmp permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 20 arnaud arnaud 60K mars 24 08:55 tmp
I was able work around ...
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"sorry that did not work. please try again" when logging into vps
I am a new ubuntu user. I have a XRDP remote desktop setup on my vps. Whenever I connect, the user is "root", but the root password does not work even thought I am putting it in 100% correct....
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How to change the log in keyboard layout in Ubuntu 22.04?
I'm a former windows user and completly new to linux and ubuntu (I had no idea what kernel, or booted, or distro was until a day ago). I just installed it to try it out. I am however not able to ...
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live session locked out ubuntu-studio 22.10
22.10 Live version locks it's screen & demands a user & password - none of the usual suspects seems to work - may I please know the magic keys ?
I have processes running & cannot get to ...
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Anydesk Start Without Login 22.04
I'm using ubuntu 22.04, and I wanted to remote my computer using anydesk. Unfortunately, sometimes when remoting, I need to restart my computer, preventing me from reconnecting to any desk since I ...
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Google Login problems
ScreenshotI'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS aarch64 on my PI400 and really liking it, however when i try to log my Google account in Settings/Online Accounts I get the attached.
It's not urgent, just ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 not starting after first encryption password
I start my computer, a Lenovo Thinkpad. Ubuntu 20.04 is asking for login encrypt disk password. Normally for the past year it was starting and asking for a second login password, but now only a black ...
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I cannot log in
I've been using Ubuntu for a few weeks and today I modified/tweaked it. I restarted my laptop and now I cannot log in. I try to log in but it takes me back to the log in screen. I don't want to lose ...
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Managed Ubuntu 20.04 system - login loop
I have been struggling with a login loop issue for ~1 month now and am unable to resolve it despite help from my work IT department. The issue is that I am unable to login through the GUI - if I do, I ...
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Lightdm(with slick-greeter) only starts AFTER tty login
I recently installed slick-greeter, and have wrestled with various configuration issues, and spent quite some time searching various threads across various distros for the issue I'm seeing.
That is, ...
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How can I execute a command before login?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I want to execute the command xdotool mousemove 960 540 to center my mouse pointer before login. I can do it just by adding the command to Startup Applications, but then it only runs ...
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ubuntu keeps loging me out randomly
I have been having this problem recently:
Ubuntu keeps loging me out randomly even when I am actively moving the mouse and pressing
keys.
The screen goes blank and there is this cursor thing at the ...
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How to replace login screen system
I'm having issues with my the default ubuntu login system, because
It takes FOREVER to load when I close and open my laptop
It often doesn't load correctly, the dock icons are missing and opening the ...
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After boot go automatically to graphical login screen
I installed Ubuntu 18.04.6 desktop and then lubuntu-desktop.
Now the system boots to non-graphical login screen. The user of the laptop
will have to press ctrl+alt+F7 to go to graphical login screen.
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VirtualBox: Ubuntu Server loads GUI for Login
I have installed on a MacOS Virtual Box with some Ubuntu installations, some servers and Desktop releases. For Ubuntu Server 20:04 available since months ago, yesterday I executed the image as usual: ...
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Pressing login makes the screen black
I am new to Ubuntu and I decided to change to it from windows due to my work.I successfully installed it but after I press login my screen gets blank and flashing some part of my screen as on ...
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Login Greeter takes 20~30 sec (after bootup apparently finished) to appear
I looked into this question among a few others (on and off SO) for a solution.
The upvoted (but not accepted) answer to that question, suggests entropy might be a problem.
I have infact from the ...
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lightdm crash (once) & thereafter login screen shows "failed to authenticate" - impossible to login
OS: ubuntu 20.04 with lightdm
HW: Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB
History: this system has worked for well over a year without issues.
There was a random crash of the sound system (this has happened before), my ...
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Black screen on login GUI after changing username
I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 in a virtual machine.
I only have one user and after some days of use I decided to change the user name.
I changed the user name successfully, but after logging in with ...
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How do I fix the Ubuntu Login Loop Problem [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 18.04 as a dual boot with my windows and the storage got full, which caused a login loop problem. I try to login into the system with the correct password but the screen flashes to ...
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Login Loop on Ubuntu 20.04 with no . XAuthority
I have gotten into a login loop after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04.
The cause might be that I upgraded from root?
Do you know any solutions to this?
(I have tried most of them but they didn't work)
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When I switch to xfce4 desktop, my login credentials don't work until I switch back
Installed the xfce4 desktop environment, logged out, did the desktop environment switch, now I can't login. How do I get xfce to recognize my login?
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Set the login screen to a different fixed refresh rate?
I am using Ubuntu 21.04 with a 144 Hz monitor.
I wonder if there is a way to set the login screen to 144 Hz?
This would probably avoid to switching the refresh rate at session startup (screen going ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 gdm3 login loop
I am currently using gdm3 destop manager while I login it gets stuck in login loop.
I have followed almost all the procedures suggested in this post
Permissions of Xauthority and /tmp were fine.
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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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Desktop (dual boot with windows) with AMD GPU upgraded from ubuntu 18LTS to 20.04 LTS breaks login GUI
I made the mistake of upgrading from ubuntu 18 LTS to 20.04 LTS not knowing there are (login) issues with 20.04.
My computer has an
AMD GPU
dual boot with windows
~5 gigabytes of space left available ...
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Fast bootup, but slow login from GDM prompt to desktop
Specs
Ubuntu version: 20.10 (groovy)
Storage: SATA SSD
RAM: 8 GB DDR3
CPU: AMD A8-4500M APU
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7640G
Problem
Bootup is quite fast at 14 seconds as reported by systemd-analyze. But ...
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When my PC starts. The system go directly to the workspace, instead to go to the login screen
I had one problem in my PC much time before this happen, my PC was formatted and the Ubuntu system was reinstalled by computer mechanic, now my PC work normally, but, when my PC start, happen the ...
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Cant Log in but have the right password [duplicate]
Whenever I want to log in, I can't get any further than the login window. I have already reset my password and changed but that also brings nothing. How can I log in again now?
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Screen timeout for Ubuntu Server login screen
My server machine always has screen turned on on the login screen, which is shown right after the boot and where I have to input my login and password. There is no desktop environment. I wonder ...
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Can't login after suspend
I can't login to my account after GNOME suspend. I'm typing password correct, but it shows "Incorrect password". I must click Power Off the computer. I'm using Ubuntu 20.10.
Did anyone ...
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Slick-greeter wont stay persistent in Xubuntu
I'm running Xubuntu 20.04 and I've installed slick-greeter, I've also run sudo apt-get autoremove lightdm-gtk-greeter and yet when my computer wakes up from a sleep it still goes back to the lightdm-...
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Login fails after upgrade of Ubuntu 20.04 kernel and headers
After an update (evidently kernel and headers, etc.) I was unable to logon as usual (graphic login screen). Neither the one configured user (Admin, with sudo privileges) nor root can log on in the ...
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Welcome screen displays on every boot
I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and on every boot, I am forced to create new user account, else, I won't be able to login to existing ones. After creating the user account, I'll have to switch to an ...
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Login only via Ubuntu Wayland possible and User is missing in Login List, Ubuntu 20.04
After update from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, all works fine. My notebook has two users there have access to the client with a separate user profile.
After Unsubscribe from my profile, is it impossible to ...
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