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hello,
I recently had this problem where I'm unable to login to my user. I'll put in the correct password and everything but when I hit enter or login it takes away the login box and all the other stuff on the screen for some seconds and go back to the login screen. I tried switching workspaces but to no avail. I can go into the root user and try to make another user which also works but I still can't go into the first user I made. Any help?

Thanks in advance

Which desktop and display manager do you use?
Would you mind to provide your ~/.xsession-errors file content and journalctl -b output?

I'm using the Cinnamon desktop although I tried also using the Xfce desktop which also didn't work. and where are those files you mentioned located?

Also please provide the information for your display manager, kdm,gdm,lxdm,lightdm ?
I' ve mention where .xsession-errors file. In your user home directory. Also you can get journalctl -b output from command line. You can dump output to a txt file like this:

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journalctl -b > journallog.txt

And attach these files to either your message or use a paste site to paste their contents and share urls.

Here is the info from the journalctl -b:
http://ge.tt/5qXtk8Y1/v/0?c

Here is the info from .xsession-errors:
http://ge.tt/473Yl8Y1/v/0?c

I had a similar exp. with PClinux in a VM. user unable to login after updating, only root.
tried a full reinstall -worked ok until updated.

In the end I found that the root cause was that the / partition was too small.

My / partition is pretty big and isn't filled so I don't think that's the problem. (I have 280.3 GB free)

Hi;

Are you using a seperate partition for /home? What is your user name and the home directory for that user?

Could you post the result of the following:

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$ grep YOUR_USER_LOGIN /etc/passwd


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$ cat /etc/fstab


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$ ll /home


and finally:

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$ mount


Thanks

I am using the same partition for home, my username is nep, and the home directory is /home.

after grep:

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nep:x:500:500:Neptune:/home/nep:/bin/bash

after cat:

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# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=1e99f8d1-c1cf-4c5c-b1a6-76f39e38dfca / ext4 acl,noatime 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=fd9c00b8-6e04-40b4-96a1-8a0b833a6f1a swap swap defaults 0 0

after ll:

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total 8
drwx------ 33 n3p n3p 4096 Apr 14 18:17 n3p/
drwxr-xr-x 41 nep nep 4096 Apr 10 16:35 nep/

after mount:

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proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=1916668k,nr_inodes=479167,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=25,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)

Please next time use code tags as explained in ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandriva/m ... e_tags.ogv

ok, sorry, I'm not very educated when it comes to editing my replies and such.

Can you try logging in as nep in a terminal?

Try pressing CTRL+ALT+F3 and try logging in as nep..

Please show the result of blkid..

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# grep nep /etc/shadow


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# blkid


I am able to login as nep through the terminal.

The result of grep:

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nep:$2a$08$6eAKl./lqIlW2vv2.CQhAuComP2xzWp2E0qCn5VvyrizRJq3sHhDa:16168::99999::::

The result of blkid:

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/dev/sda1: UUID="1e99f8d1-c1cf-4c5c-b1a6-76f39e38dfca" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="000e11d0-01"
/dev/sda2: UUID="fd9c00b8-6e04-40b4-96a1-8a0b833a6f1a" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="000e11d0-02"

Alltimeuser wrote:I am able to login as nep through the terminal.

Was there some error message when you couldn't login?

No, it just take away the dialog box for some seconds and then the login screen reappears.

Uhmm, well in a terminal there is no dialog box ... Did you really try from a terminal?

EDIT: Nevermind, I got confused. What display manager do you use? Take a look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Display_Managers to know which is which.

Otherwise you can simply boot to failsafe mode, login as root and set a new password via

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passwd nep

I am pretty sure I am using the lightdm gtk display manager.
And how do I go about doing the failsafe mode stuff?
(Since this problem has been a long hassle, I'm thinking of ending the thread because I got my current user to basically mimic the nep user. Also, the flash topic I made is still troubling me)

Yes it's lightdm and cinnamon,cinnamon-screensaver-dialog[3262]: pam_tcb(cinnamon-screensaver:auth) it's from that log file.

thanks

Then simply choose another desktop session, it may be a problem with cinnamon only.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Display_Mana ... _Selection

This also happens with Xfce4 which I got from the software management center.