Zorin stuck in login loop

[beer]

so i was trying to login today to do stuff on my laptop and i put my password and then i get put back to the login screen
i tried googling the problem and tried the solutions given but nothing worked so i thought might post it here
im using the latest zorin core

[Ocka]

Gday @beer , Welcome to the community!

Try here

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 …

[beer]

tried that one already,
didnt work

[swarfendor437]

There is more than one solution given in that thread. Have you tried deleting Xauthority file solution?

[beer]

sorry for late response i was chugging beer
ive tried every solution given on the guide and any other guide i could find
the xauthority file doesnt exist on my pc

[beer]

i dont get what you're saying, @337harvey

[Aravisian]

You can also tap ctrl+h to reveal the hidden (with a . in front of file name) files in your home directory.

[beer]

ok, will try this
thanks for the suggestion!