Login loop after upgrade to 13.10

Question

Ubuntu has upgraded to 13.10, but when I reboot I can't login, even when I try with the guest session. I am brought back to the login screen.

I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login. Then I remove the file ~/.Xautohrity and reboot. After that it can login from LightDM but a new error appears:

Could not acquire name on session bus

and when I reboot it can't login again.

How can I fix this? Note that I have another Desktop environment installed alongside Unity.

Solution

I had a similar problem but fixed it by removing Cinnamon. If this is also the case for you, try the following: sudo apt-get remove --purge cinnamon* and then sudo apt-get autoremove

If you don't have cinnamon installed but any other desktop environment alongside Unity, try to uninstall those. (Gnome fallback should be fine though)

Comments

[joshjo]

I'm being brought back to the login screen right after. I will look up for similar posts.

[gertvdijk]

Relevant (or even duplicate, but not able to mark as such - no upvoted answers). How do I prevent being kicked back to the login screen every time?

[joshjo]

Ok, that helps me :D