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Hello all!

About five months ago I setup my raspberry pi 2 with Jessie. Changed the username and removed the "pi" account. It is also setup for remote desktop connection so I can control it from my main Windows PC. Yesterday I rebooted it after the web browser kept crashing when I went to Google.com.

Upon reboot it went to a black and white login screen that showed rp2-default in the upper left, the ability to shutdown/restart in the upper right, and also the ability to select default XSession/LXDE/or OpenBox in the upper right. If I enter my username:pw it goes black for a while then immediately comes back to the login screen. I have tried root:[no pw], root:root, pi:raspbian to no avail.

If I ctrl-alt-f1 then it displays:
"Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 rp2-default tty1
rp2-default login: pi (automatic login)
Authentication failure"
and I cannot use the command prompt nor press ctr-c to cancel out. I tried remote desktop and it just shows a black screen with no login window.

Has anyone encountered this before? If so, were you able to fix it?

Thanks so much.

Have you tried Ctrl-Alt-F2 or Ctrl-Alt-F3 (or F4 to F6)?

Could it be that your sd card is full?

You were absolutely right Aydan. Last night I SSH'd into it and deleted one 4 MB file. Rebooted and the regular desktop came up immediately. Probably why the browser was crashing too.

If you are NOT using NOOBS, then have you expanded the filesystem to fill the card? If not you will soon run out of disk space and likely trash the OS. First menu option.