Login loop problem with lightdm on xfce

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I am stuck at login screen every time I try to log with my password. I can log with the “root” user, but not with my default username (I got infinity loop). I tried this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightDM#Infinite_login_loop
but doesn’t work. I can use tty also. I will be glad for help

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you may have more than 1 authority file, check with:
find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"

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I got:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
/etc/X11/mhwd.d/intel.conf
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ups, wrong command …:
find $HOME/ -name ".Xauthority"

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Just some actions to help you troubleshoot:

  • Logon to a tty as root
  • Review the journal and lightdm logs (journalctl -b, /var/log/lightdm/)
  • Check that you are not out of space (df)
  • Check the ownership of your HOME directory (ls -l /home)
  • Check if any files in your HOME directory are not owned by you (find /home/USERID -not -user USERID )
    or owned by root (find /home/USERID -user root )
  • Create a new user to see if it works

This topic might provide some ideas.

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I have only this file:

/home/dimitar/.Xauthority

After deleting and try to login the file creates himself again

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Check that you are not out of space (df)

This was the problem. Thanks for all your answers

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