[solved]Can't log in on LM 12 LXDE

[IvanIsGod]

Hey there
I'm new to Linux Mint, and to Linux In general. I installed Linux Mint 12 LXDE alongside Windows XP yesterday and it worked great. Today i tried installing Wine from the Software Manager, and the computer froze, and i restarted it.
Ever since, it brings me to the login screen and won't let me login. When I try to log in with my user it shows a black screen for a second and returns to the login page. If i type a wrong password it just asks for the user again. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and try to login there it succeeds, but when i return with Ctrl+Alt+F7 it stays the same. Only when I login to root it works, but i still can't log to my user. It's the same whether I try to log in the default or the LXDE desktop.
Those were all the solutions i could find so far. what else can i try?

[esteban1uy]

Well, it can be a lot of things, but you can log in as root so let's start with something very basic.
Log in as root, then use the file manager (PCmanFM, I think) and go to /home/your_personal_folder and look for a hidden file named .xsession-errors (you must set PCmanFM to show hidden files). Open it and copy the last 10-15 lines and paste that here, so we have something to start working on.

[IvanIsGod]

That file is empty.

[esteban1uy]

Ok, let's try something else. Let's create a new user.
While logged as root, look for "Users and Groups" (in the menu, under "System Tools") and create a new user, give it administrative privileges (tick everything at "Advanced Settings"->"User Privileges"), then restart and try to log in as that new user.

If for some reason you cannot do it that way, then open a terminal and execute the command: adduser your_new_username, then usermod -a -G admin your_new_username.
Then try to log as that user, and if you can, go to "Users and Groups" and give yourself all the privileges and restart.

[IvanIsGod]

when i try to load Users and Groups in root it never finishes loading it.
I opened the terminal and created a new user, but when i typed usermod -a -G admin your_new_username nothing happened, but when i try to login to the user i can't.

[esteban1uy]

Ok, and what happens when you execute the following (I assume that you understood that you must replace "your_new_username" in the previous instructions with a proper username you choose):

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groups your_new_username

[IvanIsGod]

it sais user: user admin

[IvanIsGod]

Are there any other options?

[esteban1uy]

Are you sure you have enough disk space? It sounds pretty weird that you can start the desktop as root and not as a regular user, even when you created a new user.
Try to make some room. Please execute the following code:

sudo apt-get clean

[IvanIsGod]

Yes, That was it. I guess that was why it started when i tried to install software from the software terminal.
Thank you for all the help.