I’m remote now at work and plan to troubleshoot some more at lunch.
In my Googs search I found quite a few post regarding Ubuntu login loop. Most referring to users using Nvidia. I have an Nvidia card so I’m not sure if there is something that changed in recent updates. Other changes since yesterday was that I installed the Chrome Remote Desktop and was trying to configure a remote session using display 0 instead of the default display 20. I’m not sure if something may have changed there also.
However, I found a post in regards to the .Xauthority being owned by root and not the user. I ssh’d to my machine from work and found that to be true, that my .Xauthority file was owned by root. I have since chown’d it and plan to reboot at lunch to see if that fixes the issue.
I’ll update later.