Ok, so I have tried everything I've seen but every time i try to log in (no matter what account) it says "System program problem detected" then the screen goes black and right back to the login screen. (I currently have Ubuntu 16.04)
So far i have tried the .Xauthority ls -lah stuff but that has done nothing
I tried the ls -ld/tmp and i get drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 Nov 5 21:52 /tmp
I then made a new account and gave that admin and tried to login but I got the same error
Then I tried the purge, reinstall, and then reconfigure lightdm but when I tried to reconfigure it game me this error /user/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure must be run as a root
I don't know what to do now besides completely reinstalling ubuntu, which I'd like to avoid. Please help.
/user/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure? Surely you mean/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure. Did you try to run it as root, i. e. withsudo? What's the output ofsudo apt-get install -f? See How do I save terminal output to a file? and How do I get information from the logs on my computer when I only have access to the command line? if you don't know how to capture the output and insert it into your question from a virtual terminal. – David Foerster Nov 06 '16 at 15:49