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Re: [LUG] Mint 19.x Login Weirdness: SOLVED

 
On 19/11/19 12:12, Julian Hall wrote:
> On 17/11/2019 14:28, Julian Hall wrote:
>> On 16/11/2019 16:54, Julian Hall wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Many thanks to Mr Meowski, Simon Waters and Michael Everitt for your
>>> time and input. After all that aggravation I did as Michael suggested
>>> and created a new user, imaginatively named 'test'. That logged into
>>> Mint 19 Cinnamon with no problem at all, so it appears that /something/
>>> in my normal account's /home folder has gone belly up. That /probably/
>>> means I can rsync my proper Mint 19.2 into its normal state. Is/are
>>> there any usual suspect/s I can try to remove in /home?
>>>
>>> As /home is a separate backup is it worth trying to recover the backup?
>>> That assumes of course that the problem hasn't been inadvertently
>>> backed up.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Julian
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I say SOLVED whilst touching every piece of solid wood, plywood, and MDF
>> I can find. Having narrowed down the culprit to my normal /home files I
>> had a look at the backup and .Xauthority stood out like a sore thumb.
>> The backup was 50 bytes whilst the copy on the HD was zero bytes.
>> Copying the backup over did not work, but renaming it to old.Xauthority
>> forced the system to make a new one and that finally allowed me to log
>> in. The final step will be putting 19.2 back up as this email is sent
>> from 19.0 and then it /should/ all work. Important note to self; if this
>> happens again dump .Xauthority and try again.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Julian
>>
>>
> Finally, actually solved. 19.0 didn't like the /home folder - probably
> some 19.2 config. files - so I downloaded a 19.2 iso and put that on a
> USB stick. After a fresh install from that I am now able to log into Mint
> 19.2 with my original login and /home folder.
>
> One wrinkle I discovered along the way; I used my laptop to download the
> iso and that complained about a lack of space on / too. As I hardly use
> it that made me suspicious, and investigation showed that Timeshift had
> been enabled somehow and had take 11Gb(!) of space with backups. I
> disabled it which reclaimed the space, but it's worth noting for Mint 19
> users. When I reinstalled on the desktop I disabled Timeshift straight away.
>
> Julian
>
>
Glad to hear you conquered it Julian!

MJE

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