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[xubuntu] cannot log into primary user account following root login

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hey all, I recently delved into Ubuntu 12.04 for my desktop and installed Xubuntu 12.04 on my HP 5103 netbook. I moved a ton of movies to the disk of the netbook, inadvertently using up a ton of disk space. So much, actually, that Xubuntu hung on boot before reaching the login window, on "Checking battery state." While I was troubleshooting this, I entered a console via alt-F5 and tried startx, but to no avail. I rebooted and used "sudo startx" and was able to get into xfce, but it was like the standard xfce, not the Xubuntu flavor, and it threw me a prompt for settin (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 08/27/2012

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Running Xubuntu 12.04 32-bit.

for T's and G's, I recently tried out the "xfce session" as opposed to the default "xubuntu session," chosen from login screen.

However, now I can't change the default back to "xubuntu session"!

Someone please help this is a serious first world struggle!

I tried editing .dmrc in $HOME, but that didn't do anything.

Just did a clean install of Xubuntu 12.04 amd64 on a new Western Digital wd30ezrx 3TB hard disk - no errors during install.

[xubuntu] Session chooser 36 weeks 4 days ago

Using Xubuntu 12.04.1 with the standard LightDM login screen, I'm offered the choice between two sessions at login. One is "Xubuntu session" and the other is "Xfce session" (I do not save sessions automatically at exit).

However I see almost no difference in operation or appearance between the two.

I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 64 bit edition. When I start up my computer the xubuntu splash screen shows up and then it goes into command line mode. I can still login by typing my username and password but I have to type startx to start up xfce. This does not happen all the time. How do I fix this?

So, I installed the xubuntu-desktop package on my Lubuntu netbook, but when I went to login to a xubuntu session nothing happened. The screen simply went momentarily blank and then came up with the original login screen again.

I tried with xfce session and got the same result.

I got windows xp and xubuntu 12.10, which are installed alongside on the harddrive and it uses the usual boot manager (GRUB) so I can choose which one to use. Then, I ran out of space disk in xubuntu and I believe that I literally have zero space. but after turning on computer again, xubuntu could not load and it gave a black screen saying 'checking battery state' and it lasted like forever.

Ok, I installed Xubuntu 11.10 on my Toshiba Satalite C50 dual booted with windows 7. After that I eventually installed the KDE desktop and the Lubuntu Desktop after KDE. When I rebooted the boot screen said lubuntu instead of Xubuntu and the login screen is now the lubuntu login screen instead of the xubuntu one.

Here is my problem, I can't seen to get past the Lubuntu login screen.

New drive to go into machine. Just one. I want to triple boot again only all Xubuntu 12.04 as primary, Xubuntu 12.04 as experimental, and Xubuntu as next.

I want to have grub installed to all.

I tried upgrading the Ubuntu on my trusty netbook and found 11.10 was way too slow. So I switched to xubuntu by installing the xubuntu-desktop package and then following the crazy instructions here : http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce

Now when I try to start up I get the xubuntu load-screen.