I bumped into this as well, with lightdm and gdm after a release upgrade from
11.04.
The proposed solution to remove, ~/.Xauthority and ~/.ICEauthority doesn't work
for me.
I still don't have the solution of what triggers this but I suggest to fiddle
with .profile, excluding some lines make the issue apparently go away. (However
I can't afford to comment out addsshagent or virtualenwrapper in my setup)
I notice a weird thing: even declaring a simple function in my .profile
triggers the problem ie:
damn() { export foo="boo" }
damn
this cause the gdm/lightdm not to login as described here. Does this
make any sense to you? Do you experience the same?
With kdm (no matters if I go to kde or gnome) my usual .profile expose
no problems and I can enter but I have another possibly related issue it
fails to gracefully terminate the session the screen remains still with
just the background and the mouse pointer (still working) with no
activity!
On three stupid login programs I can't even use one.
if you have ideas please suggest, I don't think I have a very special setup but
I'll post info if required
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871667
Title:
.Xauthority sometimes owned by root, which blocks login
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
Each time I upgrade to a newer ubuntu on a particular machine, something
breaks. Last time I was unable to log in via GDM and I have to reinstall the
machine. This time, I upgraded to oneiric today, and, of course, lightdm cannot
start unity nor unity-2d: after entering a correct password it just restarts
itself.
This is a report using apport-cli - a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/871664
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 10 11:58:51 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-10 (0 days ago)
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