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Login Loop after merging / and /home

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G’day, I’ve made a mistake on my Ubuntu machine.
I copied my /home partition over to the / partition, deleted the /home partition, and then extended /. I’ve deleted the entry in fstab for /home. I’ve now got the login loop issue, please help :).
 

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Sounds like the point I'd normally reinstall and make a note to not do that again ? (I did a lot of reinstalling the first time I used Linux)

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solved using  ‘sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~’ in TTY.

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