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Ubuntu 18.04 won't show desktop after login
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowUbuntu 18.04.1 LTS Can't Enable Screen SharingAfter upgrade from 15.04 to 15.10, login takes very longHow To have different login screen wallpaper on ubuntu 16.04Ubuntu 18.04 fails to authenticate after first attemptDesktop environment won't show up when a wrong password has been entered before entering the right oneUbuntu 18.04 Lightdm not being able to loginDouble-login on 18.04?18.04 LTS new install — No desktop after loginUnable to login after Ubuntu 18.04 fresh installUbuntu 18.04 - Login loop after hard resetUbuntu 18.04 could not enter desktop after login
I have a problem when logging on when I turn on my PC.
If I enter my password correctly, it starts without problems.
But if I enter my password incorrectly and then I enter it correctly, it does not show me the desktop, the screen only shows the wallpaper.
I would also like to know if the error only happens to me, or also to you. I just installed Ubuntu.
login 18.04
edited May 1 '18 at 8:49
Jeremy
1,48531833
asked Apr 30 '18 at 22:41
Jose Luis PalaciosJose Luis Palacios
4314
add a comment |
I have a problem when logging on when I turn on my PC.
If I enter my password correctly, it starts without problems.
But if I enter my password incorrectly and then I enter it correctly, it does not show me the desktop, the screen only shows the wallpaper.
I would also like to know if the error only happens to me, or also to you. I just installed Ubuntu.
login 18.04
edited May 1 '18 at 8:49
Jeremy
1,48531833
asked Apr 30 '18 at 22:41
Jose Luis PalaciosJose Luis Palacios
4314
I have the same problem, I found a walk around: when I press alt + ctrl + F2 then alt + ctrl + F1 I can reenter my passowrd and log in.
– Samer Abu Gahgah
May 14 '18 at 7:41
add a comment |
I have a problem when logging on when I turn on my PC.
If I enter my password correctly, it starts without problems.
But if I enter my password incorrectly and then I enter it correctly, it does not show me the desktop, the screen only shows the wallpaper.
I would also like to know if the error only happens to me, or also to you. I just installed Ubuntu.
login 18.04
edited May 1 '18 at 8:49
Jeremy
1,48531833
asked Apr 30 '18 at 22:41
Jose Luis PalaciosJose Luis Palacios
4314
I have a problem when logging on when I turn on my PC.
If I enter my password correctly, it starts without problems.
But if I enter my password incorrectly and then I enter it correctly, it does not show me the desktop, the screen only shows the wallpaper.
I would also like to know if the error only happens to me, or also to you. I just installed Ubuntu.
login 18.04
login 18.04
edited May 1 '18 at 8:49
Jeremy
1,48531833
asked Apr 30 '18 at 22:41
Jose Luis PalaciosJose Luis Palacios
4314
edited May 1 '18 at 8:49
Jeremy
1,48531833
asked Apr 30 '18 at 22:41
Jose Luis PalaciosJose Luis Palacios
4314
edited May 1 '18 at 8:49
Jeremy
1,48531833
edited May 1 '18 at 8:49
Jeremy
1,48531833
edited May 1 '18 at 8:49
Jeremy
1,48531833
1,48531833
asked Apr 30 '18 at 22:41
Jose Luis PalaciosJose Luis Palacios
4314
asked Apr 30 '18 at 22:41
Jose Luis PalaciosJose Luis Palacios
4314
asked Apr 30 '18 at 22:41
Jose Luis PalaciosJose Luis Palacios
4314
4314
I have the same problem, I found a walk around: when I press alt + ctrl + F2 then alt + ctrl + F1 I can reenter my passowrd and log in.
– Samer Abu Gahgah
May 14 '18 at 7:41
add a comment |
I have the same problem, I found a walk around: when I press alt + ctrl + F2 then alt + ctrl + F1 I can reenter my passowrd and log in.
– Samer Abu Gahgah
May 14 '18 at 7:41
I have the same problem, I found a walk around: when I press alt + ctrl + F2 then alt + ctrl + F1 I can reenter my passowrd and log in.
– Samer Abu Gahgah
May 14 '18 at 7:41
I have the same problem, I found a walk around: when I press alt + ctrl + F2 then alt + ctrl + F1 I can reenter my passowrd and log in.
– Samer Abu Gahgah
May 14 '18 at 7:41
add a comment |
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This is a known bug that's listed in the release notes. This bug affects me, please click the button at the top of the bug to say that it affects you too. The workaround is to click Cancel after entering an incorrect password and then to re-enter your password. Also, if you are able, please keep an eye on this bug and help GNOME get the logs they need to fix the issue! :)
answered Apr 30 '18 at 22:59
Ads20000Ads20000
1,56911228
Those bugs are all about entering a wrong password. I have the same behaviour (the beaver background with a mouse cursor but nothing else, can't even move the mouse) but without entering a wrong password (at least, not since the latest reboot).
– Adeynack
May 9 '18 at 10:38
Try filing a bug for that @Adeynack but say in the description that it's not a duplicate of bug 1766137 because it's not a bug after entering the wrong password.
– Ads20000
May 10 '18 at 12:58
@Adeynack - I face the same bug using debian buster with gnome desktop installed.
– starkus
May 23 '18 at 5:04
add a comment |
I personally solved (or worked around) the problem by clicking on the gear on the password screen and selecting Ubuntu on Wayland instead of Ubuntu (on classic X). The bug is not present in my case with Wayland.
answered May 24 '18 at 19:05
AdeynackAdeynack
1312
Thank you! This actually solved the problem witha login loop on ubuntu 18.04!
– Joeppie
Sep 14 '18 at 12:11
add a comment |
I fought with this on and off for a few days after upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04. What a pain!
So, the extended story here is that Ubuntu switched to a "Wayland" desktop in this release, rather than continuing to use "Xorg". Then, after a "failed experiment" with that, they switched back! Personally, I upgraded again to 18.10, hoping that would magically fix it, since they began the trek back to XOrg as the default, but no luck...
If you follow the post of @Adeynack, you can most likely start Ubuntu by choosing the "Wayland" option at the login screen via the gear. That worked for me. (At first, I was terrify that my credentials didn't work at all, and I was locked out of my machine. Thank god that wasn't the case!) You may well find, however, that all of your XOrg options (i.e. "Ubuntu", "Mate", etc.) will silently fail and loop you back to the login.
This might be good enough for many of you. But, it was not for me, because native screen sharing over VNC doesn't work! In fact, I read that hardly any of the third party screen sharing utilities work on Wayland either, or they have problems at best.
After a lot of Googling and fiddling... I fixed this Xorg issue on my machine by editing a basic XServer config file:
sudo vi /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
Here I found this text:
allow_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Apparently, allow_users is not a valid key (who knows how it got there!), so I simply changed it to this:
allowed_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Viola! The XOrg options worked after that! I went with the new default "Ubuntu" choice, which is what I'd recommend if you don't know which option to choose.
Next, as you'll find in other places online, you might want to entirely disable Wayland. Open the boot config which controls that:
sudo vi /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
In the [daemon] section, uncomment WaylandEnable=false. Now, you'll not even have the Wayland desktop option, and you'll be living back in pure XOrg land again.
Finally, I found that when I made the switch back to XOrg all my icons looked funky. It turns out that is just the new standard theme / icon set using "Yaru". Well, I didn't like it. If you search for "GNOME Tweaks" in the Activities search (and install the app if you don't have it), then choose "Appearance", you'll be able to switch back to "Unity" icons, or select from a solid collection of others, plus more extended options to alter the UI.
answered 28 mins ago
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This is a known bug that's listed in the release notes. This bug affects me, please click the button at the top of the bug to say that it affects you too. The workaround is to click Cancel after entering an incorrect password and then to re-enter your password. Also, if you are able, please keep an eye on this bug and help GNOME get the logs they need to fix the issue! :)
answered Apr 30 '18 at 22:59
Ads20000Ads20000
1,56911228
Those bugs are all about entering a wrong password. I have the same behaviour (the beaver background with a mouse cursor but nothing else, can't even move the mouse) but without entering a wrong password (at least, not since the latest reboot).
– Adeynack
May 9 '18 at 10:38
Try filing a bug for that @Adeynack but say in the description that it's not a duplicate of bug 1766137 because it's not a bug after entering the wrong password.
– Ads20000
May 10 '18 at 12:58
@Adeynack - I face the same bug using debian buster with gnome desktop installed.
– starkus
May 23 '18 at 5:04
add a comment |
This is a known bug that's listed in the release notes. This bug affects me, please click the button at the top of the bug to say that it affects you too. The workaround is to click Cancel after entering an incorrect password and then to re-enter your password. Also, if you are able, please keep an eye on this bug and help GNOME get the logs they need to fix the issue! :)
answered Apr 30 '18 at 22:59
Ads20000Ads20000
1,56911228
Those bugs are all about entering a wrong password. I have the same behaviour (the beaver background with a mouse cursor but nothing else, can't even move the mouse) but without entering a wrong password (at least, not since the latest reboot).
– Adeynack
May 9 '18 at 10:38
Try filing a bug for that @Adeynack but say in the description that it's not a duplicate of bug 1766137 because it's not a bug after entering the wrong password.
– Ads20000
May 10 '18 at 12:58
@Adeynack - I face the same bug using debian buster with gnome desktop installed.
– starkus
May 23 '18 at 5:04
add a comment |
This is a known bug that's listed in the release notes. This bug affects me, please click the button at the top of the bug to say that it affects you too. The workaround is to click Cancel after entering an incorrect password and then to re-enter your password. Also, if you are able, please keep an eye on this bug and help GNOME get the logs they need to fix the issue! :)
answered Apr 30 '18 at 22:59
Ads20000Ads20000
1,56911228
This is a known bug that's listed in the release notes. This bug affects me, please click the button at the top of the bug to say that it affects you too. The workaround is to click Cancel after entering an incorrect password and then to re-enter your password. Also, if you are able, please keep an eye on this bug and help GNOME get the logs they need to fix the issue! :)
answered Apr 30 '18 at 22:59
Ads20000Ads20000
1,56911228
answered Apr 30 '18 at 22:59
Ads20000Ads20000
1,56911228
answered Apr 30 '18 at 22:59
Ads20000Ads20000
1,56911228
answered Apr 30 '18 at 22:59
Ads20000Ads20000
1,56911228
1,56911228
Those bugs are all about entering a wrong password. I have the same behaviour (the beaver background with a mouse cursor but nothing else, can't even move the mouse) but without entering a wrong password (at least, not since the latest reboot).
– Adeynack
May 9 '18 at 10:38
Try filing a bug for that @Adeynack but say in the description that it's not a duplicate of bug 1766137 because it's not a bug after entering the wrong password.
– Ads20000
May 10 '18 at 12:58
@Adeynack - I face the same bug using debian buster with gnome desktop installed.
– starkus
May 23 '18 at 5:04
add a comment |
Those bugs are all about entering a wrong password. I have the same behaviour (the beaver background with a mouse cursor but nothing else, can't even move the mouse) but without entering a wrong password (at least, not since the latest reboot).
– Adeynack
May 9 '18 at 10:38
Try filing a bug for that @Adeynack but say in the description that it's not a duplicate of bug 1766137 because it's not a bug after entering the wrong password.
– Ads20000
May 10 '18 at 12:58
@Adeynack - I face the same bug using debian buster with gnome desktop installed.
– starkus
May 23 '18 at 5:04
Those bugs are all about entering a wrong password. I have the same behaviour (the beaver background with a mouse cursor but nothing else, can't even move the mouse) but without entering a wrong password (at least, not since the latest reboot).
– Adeynack
May 9 '18 at 10:38
Those bugs are all about entering a wrong password. I have the same behaviour (the beaver background with a mouse cursor but nothing else, can't even move the mouse) but without entering a wrong password (at least, not since the latest reboot).
– Adeynack
May 9 '18 at 10:38
Try filing a bug for that @Adeynack but say in the description that it's not a duplicate of bug 1766137 because it's not a bug after entering the wrong password.
– Ads20000
May 10 '18 at 12:58
Try filing a bug for that @Adeynack but say in the description that it's not a duplicate of bug 1766137 because it's not a bug after entering the wrong password.
– Ads20000
May 10 '18 at 12:58
@Adeynack - I face the same bug using debian buster with gnome desktop installed.
– starkus
May 23 '18 at 5:04
@Adeynack - I face the same bug using debian buster with gnome desktop installed.
– starkus
May 23 '18 at 5:04
add a comment |
I personally solved (or worked around) the problem by clicking on the gear on the password screen and selecting Ubuntu on Wayland instead of Ubuntu (on classic X). The bug is not present in my case with Wayland.
answered May 24 '18 at 19:05
AdeynackAdeynack
1312
Thank you! This actually solved the problem witha login loop on ubuntu 18.04!
– Joeppie
Sep 14 '18 at 12:11
add a comment |
I personally solved (or worked around) the problem by clicking on the gear on the password screen and selecting Ubuntu on Wayland instead of Ubuntu (on classic X). The bug is not present in my case with Wayland.
answered May 24 '18 at 19:05
AdeynackAdeynack
1312
Thank you! This actually solved the problem witha login loop on ubuntu 18.04!
– Joeppie
Sep 14 '18 at 12:11
add a comment |
I personally solved (or worked around) the problem by clicking on the gear on the password screen and selecting Ubuntu on Wayland instead of Ubuntu (on classic X). The bug is not present in my case with Wayland.
answered May 24 '18 at 19:05
AdeynackAdeynack
1312
I personally solved (or worked around) the problem by clicking on the gear on the password screen and selecting Ubuntu on Wayland instead of Ubuntu (on classic X). The bug is not present in my case with Wayland.
answered May 24 '18 at 19:05
AdeynackAdeynack
1312
answered May 24 '18 at 19:05
AdeynackAdeynack
1312
answered May 24 '18 at 19:05
AdeynackAdeynack
1312
answered May 24 '18 at 19:05
AdeynackAdeynack
1312
1312
Thank you! This actually solved the problem witha login loop on ubuntu 18.04!
– Joeppie
Sep 14 '18 at 12:11
add a comment |
Thank you! This actually solved the problem witha login loop on ubuntu 18.04!
– Joeppie
Sep 14 '18 at 12:11
Thank you! This actually solved the problem witha login loop on ubuntu 18.04!
– Joeppie
Sep 14 '18 at 12:11
Thank you! This actually solved the problem witha login loop on ubuntu 18.04!
– Joeppie
Sep 14 '18 at 12:11
add a comment |
I fought with this on and off for a few days after upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04. What a pain!
So, the extended story here is that Ubuntu switched to a "Wayland" desktop in this release, rather than continuing to use "Xorg". Then, after a "failed experiment" with that, they switched back! Personally, I upgraded again to 18.10, hoping that would magically fix it, since they began the trek back to XOrg as the default, but no luck...
If you follow the post of @Adeynack, you can most likely start Ubuntu by choosing the "Wayland" option at the login screen via the gear. That worked for me. (At first, I was terrify that my credentials didn't work at all, and I was locked out of my machine. Thank god that wasn't the case!) You may well find, however, that all of your XOrg options (i.e. "Ubuntu", "Mate", etc.) will silently fail and loop you back to the login.
This might be good enough for many of you. But, it was not for me, because native screen sharing over VNC doesn't work! In fact, I read that hardly any of the third party screen sharing utilities work on Wayland either, or they have problems at best.
After a lot of Googling and fiddling... I fixed this Xorg issue on my machine by editing a basic XServer config file:
sudo vi /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
Here I found this text:
allow_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Apparently, allow_users is not a valid key (who knows how it got there!), so I simply changed it to this:
allowed_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Viola! The XOrg options worked after that! I went with the new default "Ubuntu" choice, which is what I'd recommend if you don't know which option to choose.
Next, as you'll find in other places online, you might want to entirely disable Wayland. Open the boot config which controls that:
sudo vi /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
In the [daemon] section, uncomment WaylandEnable=false. Now, you'll not even have the Wayland desktop option, and you'll be living back in pure XOrg land again.
Finally, I found that when I made the switch back to XOrg all my icons looked funky. It turns out that is just the new standard theme / icon set using "Yaru". Well, I didn't like it. If you search for "GNOME Tweaks" in the Activities search (and install the app if you don't have it), then choose "Appearance", you'll be able to switch back to "Unity" icons, or select from a solid collection of others, plus more extended options to alter the UI.
answered 28 mins ago
BuvinJBuvinJ
1087
add a comment |
I fought with this on and off for a few days after upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04. What a pain!
So, the extended story here is that Ubuntu switched to a "Wayland" desktop in this release, rather than continuing to use "Xorg". Then, after a "failed experiment" with that, they switched back! Personally, I upgraded again to 18.10, hoping that would magically fix it, since they began the trek back to XOrg as the default, but no luck...
If you follow the post of @Adeynack, you can most likely start Ubuntu by choosing the "Wayland" option at the login screen via the gear. That worked for me. (At first, I was terrify that my credentials didn't work at all, and I was locked out of my machine. Thank god that wasn't the case!) You may well find, however, that all of your XOrg options (i.e. "Ubuntu", "Mate", etc.) will silently fail and loop you back to the login.
This might be good enough for many of you. But, it was not for me, because native screen sharing over VNC doesn't work! In fact, I read that hardly any of the third party screen sharing utilities work on Wayland either, or they have problems at best.
After a lot of Googling and fiddling... I fixed this Xorg issue on my machine by editing a basic XServer config file:
sudo vi /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
Here I found this text:
allow_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Apparently, allow_users is not a valid key (who knows how it got there!), so I simply changed it to this:
allowed_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Viola! The XOrg options worked after that! I went with the new default "Ubuntu" choice, which is what I'd recommend if you don't know which option to choose.
Next, as you'll find in other places online, you might want to entirely disable Wayland. Open the boot config which controls that:
sudo vi /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
In the [daemon] section, uncomment WaylandEnable=false. Now, you'll not even have the Wayland desktop option, and you'll be living back in pure XOrg land again.
Finally, I found that when I made the switch back to XOrg all my icons looked funky. It turns out that is just the new standard theme / icon set using "Yaru". Well, I didn't like it. If you search for "GNOME Tweaks" in the Activities search (and install the app if you don't have it), then choose "Appearance", you'll be able to switch back to "Unity" icons, or select from a solid collection of others, plus more extended options to alter the UI.
answered 28 mins ago
BuvinJBuvinJ
1087
add a comment |
I fought with this on and off for a few days after upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04. What a pain!
So, the extended story here is that Ubuntu switched to a "Wayland" desktop in this release, rather than continuing to use "Xorg". Then, after a "failed experiment" with that, they switched back! Personally, I upgraded again to 18.10, hoping that would magically fix it, since they began the trek back to XOrg as the default, but no luck...
If you follow the post of @Adeynack, you can most likely start Ubuntu by choosing the "Wayland" option at the login screen via the gear. That worked for me. (At first, I was terrify that my credentials didn't work at all, and I was locked out of my machine. Thank god that wasn't the case!) You may well find, however, that all of your XOrg options (i.e. "Ubuntu", "Mate", etc.) will silently fail and loop you back to the login.
This might be good enough for many of you. But, it was not for me, because native screen sharing over VNC doesn't work! In fact, I read that hardly any of the third party screen sharing utilities work on Wayland either, or they have problems at best.
After a lot of Googling and fiddling... I fixed this Xorg issue on my machine by editing a basic XServer config file:
sudo vi /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
Here I found this text:
allow_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Apparently, allow_users is not a valid key (who knows how it got there!), so I simply changed it to this:
allowed_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Viola! The XOrg options worked after that! I went with the new default "Ubuntu" choice, which is what I'd recommend if you don't know which option to choose.
Next, as you'll find in other places online, you might want to entirely disable Wayland. Open the boot config which controls that:
sudo vi /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
In the [daemon] section, uncomment WaylandEnable=false. Now, you'll not even have the Wayland desktop option, and you'll be living back in pure XOrg land again.
Finally, I found that when I made the switch back to XOrg all my icons looked funky. It turns out that is just the new standard theme / icon set using "Yaru". Well, I didn't like it. If you search for "GNOME Tweaks" in the Activities search (and install the app if you don't have it), then choose "Appearance", you'll be able to switch back to "Unity" icons, or select from a solid collection of others, plus more extended options to alter the UI.
answered 28 mins ago
BuvinJBuvinJ
1087
I fought with this on and off for a few days after upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04. What a pain!
So, the extended story here is that Ubuntu switched to a "Wayland" desktop in this release, rather than continuing to use "Xorg". Then, after a "failed experiment" with that, they switched back! Personally, I upgraded again to 18.10, hoping that would magically fix it, since they began the trek back to XOrg as the default, but no luck...
If you follow the post of @Adeynack, you can most likely start Ubuntu by choosing the "Wayland" option at the login screen via the gear. That worked for me. (At first, I was terrify that my credentials didn't work at all, and I was locked out of my machine. Thank god that wasn't the case!) You may well find, however, that all of your XOrg options (i.e. "Ubuntu", "Mate", etc.) will silently fail and loop you back to the login.
This might be good enough for many of you. But, it was not for me, because native screen sharing over VNC doesn't work! In fact, I read that hardly any of the third party screen sharing utilities work on Wayland either, or they have problems at best.
After a lot of Googling and fiddling... I fixed this Xorg issue on my machine by editing a basic XServer config file:
sudo vi /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
Here I found this text:
allow_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Apparently, allow_users is not a valid key (who knows how it got there!), so I simply changed it to this:
allowed_users=anybody
allowed_users=console
Viola! The XOrg options worked after that! I went with the new default "Ubuntu" choice, which is what I'd recommend if you don't know which option to choose.
Next, as you'll find in other places online, you might want to entirely disable Wayland. Open the boot config which controls that:
sudo vi /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
In the [daemon] section, uncomment WaylandEnable=false. Now, you'll not even have the Wayland desktop option, and you'll be living back in pure XOrg land again.
Finally, I found that when I made the switch back to XOrg all my icons looked funky. It turns out that is just the new standard theme / icon set using "Yaru". Well, I didn't like it. If you search for "GNOME Tweaks" in the Activities search (and install the app if you don't have it), then choose "Appearance", you'll be able to switch back to "Unity" icons, or select from a solid collection of others, plus more extended options to alter the UI.
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