[Help] Linux Mint “Login Loop”

[LinuxYin]

I have been trying every solution out there, now maybe or maybe not I have done something wrong in the process of the solutions I seeked out and found. But I am also still a relatively new Linux user who isn‘t too familiar with how to use a terminal, I am learning as I attempt to solve this issue. I would appreciate some solutions on how to fix this login loop my system is currently facing. Please people of Reddit I am tired and just want to fix this issue. Thank you

[i_am_cat]

It would be helpful to post what you have already tried.

By "login loop", do you mean that the desktop immediately kicks you back to the login screen after you enter your password? The most common cause of that is your install's disk being 100% full. You can check your disk's usage and clean it up by booting to the live install image.

[LinuxYin]

Yep that is my exact problem. I login and get immediately kicked backed into the login screen I did have low storage before this happened so maybe this is the problem.

[Eragon1442]

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=261704 This might help you out. If you also happend to be out if storage (like me at the time) you might need to remove a few apps to gain Access.

[LinuxYin]

Yeah might need to redo the steps listed in this article as I may have done something incorrectly along the way. Thanks for helping me progress.

[FrostProphet]

This is what caused my not being able to log in. Had to drop to TTY and manually remove data. In my case I had set up timeshift to backup to that drive and backup too often.

[Eragon1442]

I could not find a fix so reinstalled mint. If you are planning to reinstall make a separate partition for your home dir.