Unable to access Trisquel System due to persistent login loop

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Heime
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A rejoint: 05/16/2026

Have been getting a recurring problem when starting Trisquel. I get asked for my password.
But after I enter it correctly, Trisquel takes me back to the password entering phase
all over again.

And thus I cannot enter into my system at all.

Have seen some solutions that involve deleting .Xauthority .ICEauthority.
But I am not sure it is a good idea. Furthermore, I have installed
Trisquel 11 with LVM, which changes and complicates things.

What should I do at this point. I had made a Trisquel 11 Live-CD/DVD/USB
for me to use without installing it or deleting data on my computer running
Trisquel 11.

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A rejoint: 08/18/2020

>
> Have been getting a recurring problem when starting Trisquel.  I get asked
> for my password.
> But after I enter it correctly, Trisquel takes me back to the password
> entering phase
> all over again.
>
> And thus I cannot enter into my system at all.
>
> Have seen some solutions that involve deleting .Xauthority .ICEauthority.
> But I am not sure it is a good idea.  Furthermore, I have installed
> Trisquel 11 with LVM, which changes and complicates things.
>
> What should I do at this point.  I had made a Trisquel 11 Live-CD/DVD/USB
> for me to use without installing it or deleting data on my computer
> running
> Trisquel 11.
>   

Try to log in from a text terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go there). If it works,
send the output of "env", of "df -h" and "df -hi".

As mentioned on the dev list, if it is the computer on which you recently
installed guix, the issue might be solved by the addition to your .profile
described on https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/gnu-guix-package-manager

Also, guix tends to take a lot of disk space, your root file system may be
full (hence why I suggested "df -h" and "df -hi").

--
David Lecompte <name at domain>

Heime
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A rejoint: 05/16/2026

On Sunday, June 1st, 2025 at 6:39 PM, David Lecompte <name at domain> wrote:

> > Have been getting a recurring problem when starting Trisquel. I get asked
> > for my password.
> > But after I enter it correctly, Trisquel takes me back to the password
> > entering phase
> > all over again.
> >
> > And thus I cannot enter into my system at all.
> >
> > Have seen some solutions that involve deleting .Xauthority .ICEauthority.
> > But I am not sure it is a good idea. Furthermore, I have installed
> > Trisquel 11 with LVM, which changes and complicates things.
> >
> > What should I do at this point. I had made a Trisquel 11 Live-CD/DVD/USB
> > for me to use without installing it or deleting data on my computer
> > running
> > Trisquel 11.
>
>
> Try to log in from a text terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go there). If it works,
> send the output of "env", of "df -h" and "df -hi".
>
> As mentioned on the dev list, if it is the computer on which you recently
> installed guix, the issue might be solved by the addition to your .profile
> described on https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/gnu-guix-package-manager

Indeed, it is the computer on which I have installed the guix package manager.

> Also, guix tends to take a lot of disk space, your root file system may be
> full (hence why I suggested "df -h" and "df -hi").

Should be unlikely because I increased the root partition to 55G.

> --
> David Lecompte name at domain