Robert,

I do not recall what the permissions where but I do know that before the
problem I had never messed with .Xauthority.  The problem did not persist
once it was deleted.

Nate


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Robert Ancell
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Nate - your .Xauthority seems valid, do you remember what permissions it
> had? Did the problem persist after deleting it?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036830
>
> Title:
>   Can't log in unless remove .Xauthority or use gdm
>
> Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   On 8/13/2012 I updated ubuntu 12.10.  Now when I try to log in the
>   system flashes a black screen and then puts me back at the log in
>   screen.  Logging in as guest works.  I tried adding a new user and
>   cannot log in with that user either.
>
>   I switched to gdm and logging in works fine.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
>   Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
>   Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
>   Architecture: amd64
>   Date: Tue Aug 14 13:24:06 2012
>   DistUpgraded: Fresh install
>   DistroCodename: quantal
>   DistroVariant: ubuntu
>   GraphicsCard:
>    Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
> Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>      Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:04a9]
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
> (20120425)
>   MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6220
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANGUAGE=en_US:en
>    TERM=linux
>    PATH=(custom, user)
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-10-generic
> root=UUID=94ff83ca-e880-49d3-8791-cdd2999ea806 ro quiet splash
> elevator=deadline vt.handoff=7
>   SourcePackage: xorg
>   Symptom: display
>   Title: Xorg crash
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   XorgConf:
>    section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Card0"
>         Driver  "intel"
>         Option  "AccelMethod" "sna"
>    EndSection
>   dmi.bios.date: 05/17/2012
>   dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.bios.version: A08
>   dmi.board.name: 0D1CTR
>   dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.board.version: A00
>   dmi.chassis.type: 9
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd05/17/2012:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6220:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn0D1CTR:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
>   dmi.product.name: Latitude E6220
>   dmi.product.version: 01
>   dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
>   version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8+bzr3249-0ubuntu2
>   version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
>   version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.38-0ubuntu1
>   version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.4-1ubuntu1
>   version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
>   version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.4-1ubuntu1
>   version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.1.902-1ubuntu1
>   version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu2
>   version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> 1:6.14.99~really6.14.4-0ubuntu2
>   version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> 2:2.19.0-1ubuntu2
>   version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> 1:1.0.1-1build1
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