Extreme newbie login loop and startup questions

[swarfendor437]

Resolving Login Loop issues ... should they occur!

Have found another potential cause to this problem - corrupt files. I booted a recent install of Zorin Education 15.1 on works Notebook and had login loop. Started in Advanced | Safe mode and ran FSCK - it could not run automatically, stated it would need to run manually. So at the root prompt you type: fsck /dev/sda1 This is assuming there is only one hard drive in the machine - you would of course put the device label according to which drive Zorin is on. fsck runs and reports file errors …