Only main user can not login anymore

[magynhard]

Hi there,

for two days, i guess it was after an update, my main user can not login anymore into GNOME. It is an endless loop. But if i login with another user, it works without any issue. For both i use the option “GNOME” for login.

I already tried to delete all gnome extensions of the main user, following older instructions … without any success. Maybe the do not stuck to the latest GNOME?

Any idea how to solve this? I can provide logs and additional info, if you can tell me how to.

Thanks

[Olli]

@magynhard

But if i login with another user, it works without any issue

well, a first test is the following:
login with the user who can access the system. after login open a terminal and try to switch to the root and check if you are root.

su -

whoami

if whoami will report that you are root go ahead and change the password of the USER that has no access with

passwd USERNAME

logout or reboot and try if the user can login with the new password

[Cornwol]

Could also be worth looking back at the last update post (or maybe the one before that).
There was an issue with the etc/passwd pacnew file if I’m remember right, overwriting the existing file with a borked one that could cause a login problem.

[magynhard]

Thanks, but did not have any effect.

[magynhard]

I created a new user and moved the contents from my main user to there. Then this user had the same problem and the main user with empty user dir could login again.

Then i moved back the contents to the main users directory and renamed folders step by step from to <FOLDER.bak>. When i came to the folder .local i was able to login again. When going deeper the problem was in .local/share/gnome-shell … and then in extension-updates. Inside there was a (outdated?) plugin TeaTimer@zener.sbg.at. When i removed its directory, i was able to login again.

Unfortuntately i had deleted all extensions and their settings already before …