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Revision as of 21:40, 9 September 2020
, 21:40, 9 September 2020→Other Fixes
dpkg -l | grep nvidia-driver
There is a .Xauthority file, and an .ICEauthority file, in /home/ed and both are owned by ed:ed. The former is empty (0 bytes) and the latter has some non-UTF8 (I think?) characters in it. I'm not sure if either is an issue.
I didn't see xserver-xorg-video-nouvea in the package list or any video driver module, so I installed nouveau:
But that just put me back where I was: with a login loop problem. So I tried switching to lightdm:
apt-get install lightdm
And it worked even before a reboot. After a reboot, I had a different login screen but the actual desktop looked the same. The .Xauthority file is now 51 bytes big and I suddenly have a .xsession-errors, which contains a list of environment settings taking place...
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