shut down and start up boot problems

[shaggytwodope]

Since you are able to login, and it is not starting your desktop. You will be able to still run some commands. With that said can you run :

Code:

ls -lah

We are looking for a file called .Xauthority and the permissions related to it, in this case we want to check if the user name for the account is proper. In my case it would say :

Code:

-rw-------  1 shaggy shaggy  116 Feb 16 09:13 .Xauthority

However if it looks like this :

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-rw-------  1 root root   116 Feb 16 09:13 .Xauthority

Note the user name root. Then we may have a permissions issue and this can be fixed by running:

Code:

chown username:username .Xauthority

Adjusting username in both instances with your account username.

Then you'll want to reboot, you can use your power button or type:

Code:

sudo reboot

If this is not successful, let us know.