title: ubuntu 11.10 login goes back to splash screen
body: <p>I'm running ubuntu 11.10 on a vmware 4.0 player. I'm having a problem and hope you can help. </p>
  
  <p>When I log into the splash screen, ubuntu will take my password but promptly return me to the splash screen. This only happens with 1 user (another user logs in fine). When I log in with   F1, I am able to log in successfully (one note: it throws an error "export: 29: : bad variable name"). </p>
  
  <p>I've tried to: remove the .config/gnome-session directory and modified permissions on /tmp (sudo chmod -R a+w /tmp) as described here:
  <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1139558&amp;page=3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1139558&amp;page=3</a> (I know it's the wrong version, but worth a shot.)</p>
  
  <p>I've also tried Alt+SysRq+R+S+E+I+U+B as described here: <a href="http://www.botskool.com/forum/computer-programming/linuxunix/restartshutdown-frozen-linuxubuntu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.botskool.com/forum/computer-programming/linuxunix/restartshutdown-frozen-linuxubuntu</a></p>
  
  <p>Finally, I removed .Xsession and installed libglib2.0 as described here: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/81147/endless-login-loop">https://askubuntu.com/questions/81147/endless-login-loop</a></p>
  
  <p>Any other suggestions or resources to check? 
  TIA,</p>
  
  <p>Joe</p>
  
  <p>Here is the .bashrc:</p>
  
  <pre><code># ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
  # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
  # for examples
  
  # If not running interactively, don't do anything
  [ -z "$PS1" ] &amp;&amp; return
  
  # don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
  # ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace
  HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace
  
  # append to the history file, don't overwrite it
  shopt -s histappend
  
  # for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
  HISTSIZE=1000
  HISTFILESIZE=2000
  
  # check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
  # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
  shopt -s checkwinsize
  
  # make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
  [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] &amp;&amp; eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
  
  # set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
  if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] &amp;&amp; [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
      debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
  fi
  
  # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
  case "$TERM" in
      xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
  esac
  
  # uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
  # off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
  # should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
  #force_color_prompt=yes
  
  if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
      if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] &amp;&amp; tput setaf 1 &gt;&amp;/dev/null; then
      # We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
      # (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
      # a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
      color_prompt=yes
      else
      color_prompt=
      fi
  fi
  
  if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
      PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
  else
      PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
  fi
  unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
  
  # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
  case "$TERM" in
  xterm*|rxvt*)
      PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
      ;;
  *)
      ;;
  esac
  
  # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
  if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
      test -r ~/.dircolors &amp;&amp; eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
      alias ls='ls --color=auto'
      #alias dir='dir --color=auto'
      #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
  
      alias grep='grep --color=auto'
      alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
      alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
  fi
  
  # some more ls aliases
  alias ll='ls -alF'
  alias la='ls -A'
  alias l='ls -CF'
  
  # Add an "alert" alias for long running commands.  Use like so:
  #   sleep 10; alert
  alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] &amp;&amp; echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&amp;|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
  
  # Alias definitions.
  # You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like
  # ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.
  # See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
  
  if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
      . ~/.bash_aliases
  fi
  
  # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
  # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
  # sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
  if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] &amp;&amp; ! shopt -oq posix; then
      . /etc/bash_completion
  fi
  </code></pre>