Using VMWare Player 5.0.2 build-1031769 on Windows 7 laptop. Guest OS is CentOS 6.4.
It was working very well for me for a few days - I was installing SW packages and getting a regular user environment setup.
Issue is now: When I startup the guest OS, I am prompted for login as expected. I provide the credentials for my regular user account I had been logging in as and it looks like it's logging me in, then it puts my back to the login screen. No messages displayed, no unusual looking VMWare Player logfile messages, etc. I am using the right credentials because when I use a bad password, I get a message that credentials aren't right.
I did search these discussion forums and saw nothing that seemed very relevant here, except I did try expanding the VM disk space per one suggestion. I am unable to login to change the OS configuration (repartition disk and expand file system).
Any other suggestions on what the problem might be - I don't want to abandon this OS and start over - did a lot of work on it to date.
Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated.