Ok so I figured I would bring this issue here in case anyone else ends up having this same problem.
I did a clean install and for some reason I am unable to log in normally. I can drop to tty and log in through tty and with
sudo startx
I am able to start an xfce root session
or at lightdm enter my username as root and then log in with my root password but thats it.
If I hard restart I can sometimes then log in normally but that isnt guaranteed.
This has been an ongoing issue with another machine, both are AMD w/ ATI Raedeon HD cards.
lspci
luke@MSI-VSIDO:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RX780/RX790 Chipset Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port A)
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller (rev 40)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:15.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:16.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Juniper XT [AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
Anyone have any ideas?
UPDATE!!!!!
fstab wasnt using uuid's to assign drive paths so when I rebooted things got all messed up. By logging in as root I opened fstab with a terminal
geany /etc/fstab
and from another terminal I got my drive uuid's by running
blkid
which gave me this
luke@Asus-VSIDO:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for luke:
/dev/sdf5: LABEL="External" UUID="530e27ef-3701-4eb0-8f5f-01102fd27eba" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sde5: UUID="d556b421-6d67-45ae-8b3a-c360f09912ef" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="959eed61-477e-456c-aa3d-bf582957fb51" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="storage" UUID="0D78843743DFACE1" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="d5014b82-66e7-4dad-8787-e14aa1f79af2" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdd2: UUID="fd0b669f-cc60-4799-a342-a719249a8d57" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdd3: UUID="4d4296c2-0299-4d32-bc71-73bb4b7ea936" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="92981918-8ba7-47f8-8927-f8aca3e56ee9" TYPE="ext4"
I then edited fstab and removed the drive path and entered my drive uuid.
So mine went from this:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sde1 / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sdf5 /media/External ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5 ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/storage ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdd5 /media/sdd5 ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sde2 /home ext4 relatime 0 0
/dev/sde3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
To this
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sde1 :
UUID=d5014b82-66e7-4dad-8787-e14aa1f79af2 / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
#Entry for /dev/sdf5 :
UUID=530e27ef-3701-4eb0-8f5f-01102fd27eba /media/External ext4 defaults 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=959eed61-477e-456c-aa3d-bf582957fb51 /media/sda5 ext4 defaults 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=d556b421-6d67-45ae-8b3a-c360f09912ef /media/sdb5 ext4 defaults 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=0D78843743DFACE1 /media/storage ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdd5 :
UUID=92981918-8ba7-47f8-8927-f8aca3e56ee9 /media/sdd5 ext4 defaults 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sde2 :
UUID=fd0b669f-cc60-4799-a342-a719249a8d57 /home ext4 relatime 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sde3 :
UUID=4d4296c2-0299-4d32-bc71-73bb4b7ea936 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0