Random login glitch - fixed (i hope)

[Hanzel]

@colapunk

I run gnome manjaro on my thinkpad w530. it had been running perfectly for months, and i run updates regularly. but about a month ago, i think after running an update, i got a problem.

sometimes when i get to the login screen i type my password, hit go, the screen goes black, and it drops me back into the login screen. the password is correct, typing in a wrong password just gives a ‘wrong password’ response and this is different. it doesn’t matter how many times i try, it just kicks me back to a fresh login screen.
to get into my computer i have to restart and try again, but this is no guarantee. somtimes i have to restart 4 or 5 times. at some point it just works normally.

If you could provide some good information there might be users who can help you solve this issue.

The Announcements threads have common solutions to certain problems, it is a good idea to look through the last few stable update threads 2nd posts for solutions.

Posting the errors from the journal log could shed some light on your issue.
The command below lists the errors in the previous bootup of your machine.
journalctl --boot -1 --priority=err