Cannot login to fresh Kubuntu installation as admin, but only as guest

Posted by Cedric Reichenbach on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Cedric Reichenbach
Published on 2012-10-25T23:00:28Z Indexed on 2012/10/25 23:04 UTC
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I just installed a fresh Kubuntu 12.10 on a machine beside Windows 7. After successful installation, I rebooted and wanted to login. But when I type my password and hit Enter, some command line screen shows up for the split of a second and then it thows me back to the login screen without any error message. It's hard to spot what the command line text says, but I couldn't see any error or something like that. Anyway, when I log in as guest (without password), everything works finely. Also, when going to a system command line (using Ctrl+Alt+F1), I can login with my account without any problems.

Does anyone have a clue what is going on and how to fix it?

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