Symptom

the GUI screen goes blank black soon after login and return to login screen

Suggestion

Before blindly trying solutions on Internet, check the error log for hint first
The log for desktop GUI can be observed in .xsession-errors

Possible fix

# For setting error
rm .Xauthority

# For privilege error
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~

# For user configuration error
mv ~/.config/dconf/user ~/.config/dconf/user.old