Stuck on login screen. black screen for about a second before returning to login screen

When I try to log into my Manjaro account I get a black screen for about a second and then it brings me back to the login screen.
I’ve tried some of the solutions given for the perpetual black screen on boot or on login but they haven’t worked for me.
Please help.
This is my inxi output:

System:
  Kernel: 5.14.0-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64 
  root=UUID=71dd308f-f8d0-4539-b416-31d90ed22584 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Console: tty 3 DM: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Sony product: VPCEB36GM v: C6066ETJ serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: R1090Y8 
  date: 07/20/2010 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 27.9 Wh (98.9%) condition: 28.2/42.2 Wh (66.8%) 
  volts: N/A min: 109.5 model: Sony Corp. type: Li-ion serial: N/A 
  status: Charging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.51 GiB used: 435.4 MiB (12.1%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5 M 460 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Nehalem family: 6 model-id: 25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 7 cache: 
  L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 20226 
  Speed: 1463 MHz min/max: 1199/2534 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1463 2: 1347 3: 1703 4: 1463 
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc 
  cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb 
  ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
  pbe pcid pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdtscp rep_good sep ssbd sse 
  sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc vme xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds 
  status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.2:3 
  chip-ID: 0c45:6464 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: server: X.org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting 
  alternate: fbdev,vesa tty: 170x48 
  Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Sony 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.0-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [Kilmer Peak] 
  driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:0087 
  class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet with AVB] 
  vendor: Sony driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: b000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 
  chip-ID: 11ab:4381 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 935.32 GiB used: 26.3 GiB (2.8%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPCX-24HWST1 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk 
  size: 3.81 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD 
  serial: <filter> rev: 8.07 scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TSSTcorp model: CDDVDW TS-L633C rev: SN01 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.89 GiB (98.32%) used: 26.3 GiB (2.9%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: 71dd308f-f8d0-4539-b416-31d90ed22584 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 2.63 GiB fs: iso9660 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 4 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI 
  uuid: 4BE2-C854 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1.2:3 info: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0c45:6464 
  class-ID: 0e02 
  Device-2: 1-1.5:4 info: Intel WiMAX Connection 2400m type: <vendor specific> 
  driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8086:0186 
  class-ID: 0000 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 2-1.5:3 info: Alcor Micro Flash Drive type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 200mA 
  chip-ID: 058f:6387 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: 37.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 145 Uptime: 11h 8m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1128 lib: 342 
  flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash (login) v: 5.1.8 running-in: tty 3 inxi: 3.3.06

Welcome to the forum! :wave:

Since you’re a new user, I’d recommend you take a look at the link below:

Please update your post accordingly.

That way other users might be able to help out. Thanks!

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On top of the above advice, does this also happen when you create a new user in the console?

  • Press Ctrl+Alt+F2

  • Log in there

  • Execute

    adduser ttot2
    
  • Verify that the new user has access to the same groups as your old one by executing groups and comparing the output of both users.

      groups ttot
      groups ttot2
    

    (Where obviously, ttot is your old user and ttot2 is your new one.)
    E.G. if ttot is a member of operator and ttot2 isn’t, execute:

    usermod --append --groups operator twitty2
    
  • Execute:

    reboot
    

    when you’re done and try to login to ttot2

:crossed_fingers:

I think I have a better idea of what went wrong.
I was following the instructions on this webpage https://www.computerhope.com/unix/uxrdb.htm#examples for using xrdb, in the section that says Examples

  1. I opened up my editor and created a file called .Xresources since the page said to create one if it didn’t exist. And then on the first two lines of the new file I just entered the following:
sxiv.background: #000000
sxiv.foreground: #000000
  1. I saved the new .Xresources file, with its new contents, in the HOME directory and entered the following command in the terminal: xrdb -load ~/.Xresources

  2. After that I thought I had accomplished what I had set out to do, but hadn’t. So this left me wondering what exactly I had done. I noticed a hidden file in my home directory called .xinit and noticed this in the first four uncommented lines of the file:

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xresources
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
  1. After that I believed that rebooting my computer would put my desired configurations into effect. And that’s when I noticed that I was getting stuck in the login screen. So the problem MIGHT be that I overwrote something within the X11 files that I shouldn’t have.

Does anyone know how I can just reset the changes I had made? or bring it back to its default settings?

This is my inxi output:

System:
  Kernel: 5.14.0-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64 
  root=UUID=71dd308f-f8d0-4539-b416-31d90ed22584 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Console: tty 3 DM: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Sony product: VPCEB36GM v: C6066ETJ serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: R1090Y8 
  date: 07/20/2010 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 27.9 Wh (98.9%) condition: 28.2/42.2 Wh (66.8%) 
  volts: N/A min: 109.5 model: Sony Corp. type: Li-ion serial: N/A 
  status: Charging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.51 GiB used: 435.4 MiB (12.1%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5 M 460 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Nehalem family: 6 model-id: 25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 7 cache: 
  L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 20226 
  Speed: 1463 MHz min/max: 1199/2534 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1463 2: 1347 3: 1703 4: 1463 
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc 
  cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb 
  ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
  pbe pcid pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdtscp rep_good sep ssbd sse 
  sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc vme xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds 
  status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.2:3 
  chip-ID: 0c45:6464 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: server: X.org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting 
  alternate: fbdev,vesa tty: 170x48 
  Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Sony 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.0-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [Kilmer Peak] 
  driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:0087 
  class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet with AVB] 
  vendor: Sony driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: b000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 
  chip-ID: 11ab:4381 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 935.32 GiB used: 26.3 GiB (2.8%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPCX-24HWST1 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk 
  size: 3.81 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD 
  serial: <filter> rev: 8.07 scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TSSTcorp model: CDDVDW TS-L633C rev: SN01 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.89 GiB (98.32%) used: 26.3 GiB (2.9%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: 71dd308f-f8d0-4539-b416-31d90ed22584 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 2.63 GiB fs: iso9660 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 4 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI 
  uuid: 4BE2-C854 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1.2:3 info: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0c45:6464 
  class-ID: 0e02 
  Device-2: 1-1.5:4 info: Intel WiMAX Connection 2400m type: <vendor specific> 
  driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8086:0186 
  class-ID: 0000 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 2-1.5:3 info: Alcor Micro Flash Drive type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 200mA 
  chip-ID: 058f:6387 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: 37.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 145 Uptime: 11h 8m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1128 lib: 342 
  flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash (login) v: 5.1.8 running-in: tty 3 inxi: 3.3.06 

No, because you never provided the information we requested

:sob: