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Hi,
all of a sudden my Mint 13 Xfce system boots to tty1 prompt. When I try to login as normal user the login fails. But I am able to login as root. After logging as root I can StartX.
OK, that is weird. You have a separate /home-partition (which is mounted) and enough free space on all of your partitions. Usually when you have symptoms like you have either the /home-partition isn't accessible or the /-partition is full. The error message about not being able to cd to your home-directory indicates something like that.
As next step i would recommend to login as root and check the contents of the /home-partition. Is your user's home directory present? Which permissions are set for that directory?
I created a new user id but with new userid it's the same issue. I am going ahead with new install.
I have puppy linux installed in the same machine. I had changed the UTC=yes to no in /etc/default/rcs file. I somehow suspect that messed up the system!!!
Anyway thanks a lot for all your help.
I just did a trial install in a spare partition and changed a file in /etc using Puppy. Now mint 13 boots to tty1. I am not sure if it's there in Ubuntu as well or it's mint specific.
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