[clue] mint12 stuck at login screen

Shawn T Perry shawn at redmop.com
Tue Dec 13 08:43:30 MST 2011


If you are playing with extensions, you have a corrupt config.  You need to
delete it.  I think it is under ~/.config/dconfig somewhere.
On Dec 13, 2011 6:33 AM, "Mike Bean" <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Little bit lost in the woods, any guidance is appreciated. I'm running
> Mint12, I had thought everything was OK, just used the computer last
> night, but when I try to login in just jumps me back to the login
> screen. I can get to a tty/bash prompt, so I've been fishing around in
> my syslog/dmesg, etc... Looking for something that looks like an
> error. I can login at Bash, so I know I'm not giving it a bad
> credential. There's an x log in /var/log, but I don't see any aborts
> in there either. I'm fairly decentralized, I can reload if I have to,
> and what research I've done suggests I may end up doing a repair
> install or a reinstall. If I need to go down that road I will, but I'd
> really rather come to some understanding of what I did wrong, so I
> don't do it again.
>
> The only thing I can think of that I did yesterday that was even
> remotely system-related was I looking at disabling sleep, so I removed
> pm-utils, changed my mind and reinstalled it. (pm-utils). That would
> be the only system change I can think of.
>
> advice is appreciated.
>
> Bean
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