Cannot login with lightdm

[mushrooms]

@petsam

You have marked it as solved after a package update. Was this by mistake, or just trolling ?

I have no idea. Was suprised to see that it was marked for solution when I wake up but anyways why should I be trolling in a help post

The system was working fine a few minute before I wrote this post. Same with account session.

@petsam

• Did you implement a user/local nvidia setting?
  *Have you modified your user group, or anything on your user account?

No and I don’t remember changing stuffs for my user acc.

@petsam

There is a nvidia-settings-rc file in your $HOME.

https://clbin/RBwgj

I found two xsession errors files in home directory. This is new and this is old

@ricklinux

That is difficult when having to guess at what’s really happened to cause the problem.

I really appreciate the help but my understanding on the system is lacking but I try to follow.

[petsam]

@mushrooms

The system was working fine a few minute before I wrote this post. Same with account session.

Then you must have broken something in your user folder. Permissions are a possible problem.

I have never seen this file requested before, and is actually not existent:

thunar-WARNING **: 21:30:52.216: Content type loading failed for .Xauthority-c: Error when getting information for file “/home/user/.Xauthority-c”: No such file or directory

This cries out “Permission problem”:

Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

Check your group(s) and repair user folder permissions, if needed.
You might use this command:

id

Did you have any crashes, or unwanted power off, just before these happen?

[mushrooms]

id

uid=1000(user) gid=1001(user) groups=1001(user),3(sys),10(wheel),983(rfkill),987(users)

ls -A -l
https://clbin.com/N6xzk

No crashes or power offs. It was pretty much stable.

This was the line which I was referring to.

(sleep 2s; jgmenu --hide-on-startup) &

Summary

Now I’m afraid I might have added in the wrong file somewhere possibly. Really hate myself

Edit: nvm found it. https://clbin.com/ym5Z2

[ricklinux]

@mushrooms

Edit: nvm found it. https://clbin.com/ym5Z2

Where does that come from?
Edit: all of my systems show relatively the same as this on Arch…EOS…Manjaro etc

I don’t know what is right or wrong or otherwise but that’s what they show.

[ricklinux@rick-ms7c37 ~]$ id
uid=1000(ricklinux) gid=1000(ricklinux) groups=1000(ricklinux),3(sys),108(vboxusers),982(rfkill),984(users),998(wheel)
[ricklinux@rick-ms7c37 ~]$ 

[mushrooms]

/home/user/.config/leftwm/themes/basic_polybar/up

[petsam]

I was obviously blind or my mind played tricks…
.Xauthority is owned by root.
Delete .Xauthority (you may need to login TTY with root user) and login with LightDM as usual.
Just don’t try to login to your user account from TTY with sudo again.

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Tip: Always confirm your current directory contents with ls -a, before doing important actions.

[mushrooms]

oh damn it works now. Gonan be careful next time lol