I have found many people asking for help about login looping issue of ubuntu.One thing i wand to insure is that there is no single particular reason which may result in login looping so there is no single solution to this.But,there is only one solution why works for all and that is reinstalling ubuntu.Well, what is about the data i had in,how can i save it? The answer is we can reinstall it without loosing data of home/ directory.for this,while partitioning,we can use home partition of old installation in new installation without formation it.Other partitions (swap,root,efi) need to be created again.so we can free up these partitions mentioned to create again for new installation.
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1So what is the question? There is no universal reason of this problem, so there is no universal solution. People break the system using different ways and solutions may be different. Reinstalling helps, we can't argue about it ;-) But it is not a solution. – Pilot6 Jan 22 '21 at 09:24
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The only ever reason I've had a login loop has been because $HOME has become filled, and there is insufficient space to allow GUI login (text logins still work). Other reasons all relate to something the user (me) did in the prior session, which means the issue would be expected. Yes you can re-install without loosing data in $HOME, even change releases (ie. upgrade via re-install without impacting $HOME) however backups should always be performed as errors can be made. – guiverc Jan 22 '21 at 09:39
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What I have told is solution to use your system again normally when you have found no other solution. – MohZaf66 Jan 23 '21 at 10:09
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But i had it for different reason. – MohZaf66 Jan 23 '21 at 10:10