Ubuntu 24.10 Cinnamon login loop

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Following fresh install of Ubuntu 24.10 Cinnamon on.ASUS TUF A16 FA617NT Advantage Edition and ACER Aspire 4730Z laptops login attempts result in endless login loops.

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You gave the system sufficient room (ie. didn’t allocate a tiny partition?), as if there is insufficient space in $HOME or the user directory; a Graphic/GUI login will fail & login loop is the result.

Switching to a text terminal should allow a text login (eg. CtrlAltF4)

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Thank you for this response. /boot is 500MB, SWAP is 32GB, and / (which includes /home) is around 3.5TB. There is also a UEFI partition around 8GB.

I didn’t really persue the matter at the time because I discovered that Mint 22.1 Cinnamon installs and runs fine. So I’ve posted here mainly trying to provide Ubuntu with information. I hope this helps.

Thanks again for your response.

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You say login loop, so you have grub menu, and system boots to login page, but then loops?
Have you tried recovery mode from grub menu?

Have you updated UEFI & SSD firmware to latest available?
What video card/chip?

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Thank you for the response, oldfred. By “login loop” I mean that, after boot, the GUI login screen is presented; I provide a user name and password; the user name and password are accepted; then the GUI login screen reappears. Entering my user name and password again continues this looping behavior. I have since learned from this forum that I could enter Alt-Ctrl-F4 to get a terminal login prompt. However, if I’ve interpreted forum search results correctly, this problem was first reported back in 2023 and seems yet unaddressed. This circumstance has made me leery of using Ubuntu, and I’ve decided that for now I’ll stick with Mint 22.1, which installs, logs in, and runs OK.

Thanks again for your response.

The UEFI Bios is the latest version. The ASUS TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition FA617NT has an AMD Radeon RX7700S graphics card with 8GB GDDR6 dedicated memory.

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Have you tried switching from the default Wayland to X11 (Xorg)?

Did it make any difference?

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Thanks for looking into this, rubi1200. When I experienced the login loop with the knowledge that apparently it has been a problem since reported in 2023, I decided to abandon attempting to use Ubuntu for the time being. In other words, I gave up without further effort since Mint 22.1 installs, logs in and runs OK (setting aside some of its birthing problems including being able to print only in portrait mode and its g++ compiler (and probably Ubuntu’s also) miscompiling expressions occuring as function calling parameters.

I’ve been a software developer for just shy of 60 years and a Linux user for over 25 years. For the most part I have learned to discover workarounds, so my forum posts are not so much requests for help as efforts to inform others of my experiences–for the purpose of trying to be helpful.

Thanks again for your post.

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