Can't login to Ubuntu 12.04 since I reinstalled battery related packages

Question

I reinstalled gnome-power-manager, upower and indicator-power in order to fix battery indicator issues. Now when I try to login, the screen turns black and sends me back to the login screen.

Following doesn't work for me:

Already tried to login with gdm.
Removing ~/.Xauthority didn't work either.

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit, and don't know what else I can try.

I tried apt-get clean and apt-get autoclean and now get Failed to load session "ubuntu" after login. Console is still working. — Benjamin, Mar 02 '13 at 16:51
I was able to login again after apt-get install unity-2d and apt-get install ubuntu-desktop. Then to make unity start again I ran setsid unity. But now the system icon on the right top is missing. — Benjamin, Mar 02 '13 at 17:36
Fixed with http://askubuntu.com/questions/133478/session-menu-and-me-menu-are-missing-after-upgrade — Benjamin, Mar 02 '13 at 17:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '13 at 13:43

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The solution is:

Press Alt+Ctrl+F1 to go to the command line
Perform apt-get clean and reboot with sudo reboot

answered Mar 07 '13 at 13:43

Benjamin

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Would you accept you own answer, see https://askubuntu.com/help/self-answer – user.dz Jan 19 '16 at 12:53

Can't login to Ubuntu 12.04 since I reinstalled battery related packages

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