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I tried to first run Enlightenment Window Manager on tty2 after using the Ctrl+Alt+F2 keystrokes. It ran normally but, afterwards, I opened a terminal in Enlightenment and typed startx. X11 also launched successfully. Then I logged out from startx. After showing that it logged out successfully, the notebook died.

I unplugged the machine anyway and tried to login again but was dead cycled at login page by asking me to type in the password forever, which is on tty7. I tried to run Enlightenment again on tty2 but it died halfway. I tried to tty3 this time and can still see everything in my laptop.

Should I apt remove enlightenment through tty3?

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  • It is Xubuntu 20.04 LTS. I can still work on tty3 using text interface to access my file systems. Everything works except logging in to normal desktop. I was prompted to type in the password then jumped back to the login page repeatedly. – Yiji Tang Jun 17 '21 at 21:01
  • I tried the startx command again on tty2. It displayed "xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/yiji/.Xauthority" then stopped responding. Afterwards, It printed a huge mass of misaligned error information on screen, "No protocal specified.." "xinit: unable to connect to X server: Resource temporarily unavailable" "waiting for X server to shutdown (II) Server teminated successfully (0). Closing log file." "xinit: server error" "xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/yiji/.Xauthority". – Yiji Tang Jun 17 '21 at 21:17
  • I tried sudo Xorg -configure as well but it displays: "(EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Server is already active for display 0. If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. (EE)" I tried on tty2 but I don't know what the 0 stands for in the message? – Yiji Tang Jun 17 '21 at 21:38
  • Does this answer your question? Ubuntu gets stuck in a login loop – guiverc Jun 17 '21 at 22:08
  • Thanks guiverc. My laptop became thoroughly dead, after I pressed the power button, it can no longer continue to the booting stage but kept blinking Capital and Screenshot keys. I know that is the end of my HP machine. In fact, since Dec 2020, I have reinstalled my Operating System 5 times, because the OS broke down= without any reason. I know my hardware is not healthy itself, as it has been used 5 years already. – Yiji Tang Jun 17 '21 at 22:14
  • I'm using a 2009 dell desktop, so 5 years old I don't consider old. If you used the power-button to force off (intentionally or accidental) without a clean shutdown (command into terminal, or via SysRq keys) I'd boot a live system (such as installation media) and perform quick checks, primarily fsck or file-system check (command or using GUI tool such as gparted or gnome-disks. Given your additional details I'd also check SMART health (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools) and likely do memtest overnight(s) to validate hardware (all from live media). I'd do these first – guiverc Jun 17 '21 at 22:31

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