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When I start up my raspberry pi I get the color thing, and then when it says recovery I sometimes pressed it and sometimes didn't. Please tell me if I should or not.

Anyway I get to the login screen and type the user pi and the password raspberry. After that it goes black and looks like it will work, but then it goes straight back to the login screen.

I'm using the Default Xsession and my ethernet, HDMI and charger cables are all plugged in. My microSD card is in and I have barely worked on the pi before this, so that shouldn't be a problem.

What do I need to do?

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    The most likely problem is lack of power. Try a different power supply.
    – joan
    Commented Jun 2, 2016 at 18:56
  • I had this exact issue when my sd card went bad.
    – deltree
    Commented Jul 8, 2016 at 15:40

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Do you have tightvnc installed and have it starting at boot?

I had a similar problem and to fix it you need to make the pi user the owner of .Xauthority

chown pi:pi .Xauthority

Reboot and you should now be able to log in.

Hope that helps

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This is a common problem with Linux generally. I too ran into it once. This might help:https://askubuntu.com/q/223501/553855

And if it doesn't, use an older image of Raspbian and flash that.

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