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I was running Kali Linux 2.0 Sansa. I did the Kali Linux
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
To upgrade to Kali 2.0 rolling edition now I cannot log in The user name and password still work because if I do Ctrl+alt+f3. They work on the command line.
But in GUI it just loop over and over, keeps on asking for user name and password.
The previous answer by @JdeHaan worked for me. You can even use the solution without creating new /home/you directory (the first two steps).
cp -r /etc/skel /home/you ; chown -R you:you /home/you
/etc/skel. Creating a separate home avoids that — you can compare the configurations after checking that a basic setup works.
May 3 at 17:51
/etc/skel. Typically nothing in ~/.config is likely to be reset
/etc/skel”. In fact, given that all the DE configuration will be left as-is, this is unlikely to help much in the scenario given in the question.
May 4 at 4:06
One thing you can try is rule out the useraccount settings as a cause. Since those are generally stored in your home directory (/home/you), the fastest way would be to login on another screen, make yourself root, rename your original home directory to another name (mv /home/you /home/you.old) and recreate your home directory (mkdir /home/you ; cp -r /etc/skel /home/you ; chown -R you:you /home/you). Another possibility would be to create another new user and try that.
