I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 on an ASUS laptop. A couple of days ago my /home partition filled up. Then, while cleaning it out, I lost power. When I restarted the computer I found I couldn't log in -- any login attempt just got me a black screen, a quick flicker, and then threw me back to the login screen. It's not a credentials problem, as I don't get the "login failed" message.

I can open a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and log in to any of my user accounts from there; just not from the GUI login.

I have the following session types: Default, GNOME, GNOME/Openbox, KDE, KDE/Openbox, Openbox Session, Secure Remote Connection, Window maker, and Failsafe. Doesn't matter which one I choose (except for SRC, which gives me "Login failed"), I get the same loop.

I thought maybe some config file got messed up, but since it doesn't appear to be Gnome or KDE specific, I'm not sure where to look.

Help, please.

Nathanael Culver