0

I see that this problem has happened many times, and I've tried the suggestions but have not been able to solve the issue.

Following instructions I found to change the username, I entered recovery mode and entered

mount -o rw,remount /

and then changed the username from 'djvanel' to:

usermod student

I also changed the password. Then when I try to log in with the GUI, it accepts my password, the screen turns black for about a second, then it comes back to the login screen. I can still log into a shell. I have tried:

chown student:student ~/.Xauthority

then it gives back 'no such file or directory'. I also tried installing gmd and that also didn't work. I also reinstalled ubuntu-desktop. Now when I go back to recovery mode and change back my username and password, I still get the login loop.

djvanel
  • 1

1 Answers1

0

Do the following in grub recovery root:

mv -v /home/your-old-username /home/your-new-username
chown -Rv username:groupname /home/your-new-username

Replace respective the porper foldernames and usernames groupnames to fit your situation.

Videonauth
  • 33,355
  • 17
  • 105
  • 120
  • I have done this. My username:groupname is now student:student, the directory is /home/student, and I used chown in the way you described. The login still loops – djvanel May 07 '16 at 16:36
  • You might as well remove the following file rm ~/.Xauthority – Videonauth May 07 '16 at 16:40