Debian login loop

login debian i386 xfce
Sativa picture Sativa · Oct 5, 2015 · Viewed 20.8k times · Source

If I try to login on a Debian with XFCE it gets a blackscreen for a few seconds, then it flashes really short and puts me back at the login screen.

The strange thing is, if I go into a terminal using Ctrl + Alt + F1 (Or any other F key) I can login, and get into the GUI using startx. Everything works like usual.

I installed Debian the same way on 4 different machines but none of them had this error.

I used debian-8.2.0-i386-xfce.iso for installation with a USB stick.

Somebody has a idea what could cause this behavior?

Answer

Gabz picture Gabz · Dec 14, 2016

I had the same problem using Jessie 8.6 with the kernel 4.7 with cinnamon, and I did almost the same: I just changed the ownership of the /home/user/.Xauthority file and it also worked: 

chown user.user ./.Xauthority

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