Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
What's your GdmXserverTimeout now? And does doubling it resolve the problem? Steve On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 06:34 +, .kkursor wrote: New results. Autologin works...mostly. If I shut down the computer using Power button (not long press, just press and quick release), the Welcome to GNOME screen appers. Any other shutdown method (including Reset and accidental loss of power by disconnecting power cord) - works. What else can I try to resolve this? -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
No. That value just tells gdm how long to wait for X to start up before deciding that X has hung, to kill it and try starting it again. So my guess is that if the machine is slow: 1. X takes longer to start than GdmXserverTimeout allows, because other background processes started during boot are getting themselves initialized and keeping the system busy. 2. gdm kills X and tries to start it again. 3. By this time, most of the background processes have finished initializing, so X starts up quickly enough this time to avoid getting killed by gdm. 4. I'm guess that for some reason, gdm doesn't honor the autologin after having killed X once. If I get a little time I'll take a look in the gdm source to see if that's a correct explanation... Steve -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
Hi, Can you try extending GdmXserverTimeout to see if that helps? Maybe try setting it to 20 or 30? Steve On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 14:11 +, .kkursor wrote: This bug affects me too. sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove sudo update-rc.d gdm defaults did not help. I have a specific issue. I have created Ubuntu-based distribution for my office. On most machines autologin works but on one it does not. All machines were unpacked from the same installation image. It is weird but there is no AutoLogin features in GDM parameters file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (they are present, but disabled). And autologin is enabled in the GUI, on some machines it works and on one it does not. What files should I submit to help you? -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
Trying Kazabubu's suggestion to extend GdmXserverTimeout cleared it up for me. At least it's been fine for the last week plus, I've rebooted many times. Okay, here's my hypothesis of what's going on: 1) Note that Rami said boot was slow for him until he turned off AHCI, and then when he disabled it boot sped up and the problem disappeared. The AHCI-slowing-boot thing sounds like some weird BIOS/kernel interaction, but note: auto login didn't work when boot was slow. 2) The system I'm experiencing this on has a very, very slow old hard drive (5400 rpm 1/3 height 40 gigger from like 7 years ago), so boot is always slow. 3) I'd noticed that when this problem happens, X would start coming up, then it would go away, the system would go back to the console, X would start up again and get to the gdm login screen. Like I would expect to happen if the gdm script was timing out, killing X, and starting it again. It probably didn't time out a second time because the system was no longer as busy with processes starting up in the background. So the next thing would be to look at the code and see if gdm still honors the AutomaticLogin after having timed out once. If not, there's the bug, and it's going to be more relevant as efforts to parallelize the boot process continue. Steve -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
Maybe so. When I emailed earlier that adding sleep 10 to my /etc/init.d/gdm script fixed the problem, I celebrated a little too quickly. It worked for a while, but doesn't work any more. An earlier reporter's assertion that removing the preload package, as well as my temporary experience of the sleep command fixing the problem, makes me think that it's somehow related to service load order and maybe disk speed -- maybe the login command is reporting that the system hasn't finished starting up yet. Anyway, perhaps if you build a system with the same packages as mine you'll be able to reproduce it. I've attached my list. On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:30 +, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Could anybody describe how to trigger the issue on a new install or try on karmic? ** Attachment added: installed-software.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29495852/installed-software.log -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
By the way, GDM was starting on my system with a default sequence number of 20. I just did: sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove sudo update-rc.d gdm defaults 99 And now the autologin seems to be working... I'll let ya know in a few days or so if that's still the case. Steve On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:30 +, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Could anybody describe how to trigger the issue on a new install or try on karmic? -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
Preload isn't installed on my system, and I'm also having the problem. :-( On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 08:27 +, P-Baumgart wrote: hell yeah!! I discovered what couses the problem: preload! remove it from your system, and autologin will work again! the preload package in ubuntu repository is completely outdated (2 years old!), and if you want to use it, you have to compile it from source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload/ hope it works for you too! -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
But in the spirit of Philipp's changes, I added sleep 10; to the start section of /etc/init.d/gdm, and that's gotten it working correctly for three boots in a row. That's progress for me. NoOp, can you give that a try? Steve On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 14:12 +, NoOp wrote: On 06/28/2009 01:27 AM, P-Baumgart wrote: I discovered what couses the problem: preload! Nope - no preload installed here. $ apt-cache policy preload preload: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.4-5 Version table: 0.4-5 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
Starting at line 47: case $1 in start) sleep 10; if grep -wqs text /proc/cmdline; then I just added the sleep 10; line, everything else in that snippet is original. Steve On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 01:17 +, NoOp wrote: Sure - willing to give it a shot. Specifically where did you put it in the file? Can you give me a few lines from the file so that I don't put it in the wrong section? -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
No hints in any of those files, and I haven't touched anything in pam ever... -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
Where do you suggest I look? It's true that back in Ibex I did use Ibex's control panel to set up autologin, but given the contents of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (listed above), I'm not sure where the problem could be other than gdm. -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore
Please change this back to an open bug. I had autologin working just fine under Ibex, then after I upgraded to Jaunty it stopped working, with no changes on my part. Additional information: After I boot the machine up, when it arrives at the login screen, if I ssh in and do /etc/init.d/gdm stop; /etc/init.d/gdm start, then gdm stops, starts, and logs in automatically like it's supposed to. Top of my /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: # Automatic login, if true the first attached screen will automatically logged # in as user as set with AutomaticLogin key. AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=steve -- Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
