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I upgraded from 11.04 to 12.04 and when it was all finished i couldn't login unless i went in as a guest.

So following a lot of pages on here i deleted the ~/Xauthority High seemed to work.

However just before that i also ran sudo chmod -R $USER:$USER $HOME

Now after I've entered my password i get a small terminal window appear in the top left with me logged in.

I can't seem to find anything around this. Any ideas?

I can't help but think I've set all the files to something they shouldn't all be.

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  • Can you copy/paste the contents of ~/.xsession-errors? And /var/log/Xorg.0.log? You can mount a USB stick using this instructions and copying the files just with cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /media/usb/. – Braiam Sep 10 '13 at 15:05
  • I'll try it tmrw night when i get a chance. Thanks for the reply Braiam – Russ Sep 10 '13 at 22:19
  • xsession-errors is empty, I thought that maybe it's because I hadn't run it. So when I did, I got the error

    'User not authorized to run the X server , aborted'. So googling that I found the following page (http://www.khattam.info/solved-user-not-authorized-to-run-the-x-server-2010-11-26.html) and did

    sudo dpkg-reconfigure x11-common

    but it said that it was already running on display 0. Attaching the Xorg.0.log in the next comment

     – Russ Sep 11 '13 at 22:06
  • It wouldn't let me add it as a comment, not enough space, so I put it in the answer. Hope that's ok... – Russ Sep 11 '13 at 22:10
  • You can upload files to http://paste.ubuntu.com then copy the link and paste it in your question.... – Braiam Sep 11 '13 at 22:11
  • Braiam....I'm so sorry....I didn't notice, but I thought I'd try out a diff graphic 'session' like Unity 2D instead of Unity, and when I went to chose one, it was defaulting to recovery console!!!

    THAT'S why it kept bringing up a terminal window!!

    So sorry for wasting your time.

     – Russ Sep 11 '13 at 22:20
  • If you want you can put that as an answer instead... through it will be a public embarrassment :P. – Braiam Sep 11 '13 at 22:23

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You may have accidentally choosen the failsafe session from the session menu in the login screen.

When you are on the login screen choose your user and click on the Ubuntu logo and choose Unity or Unity 2D from the list and login.

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