Fresh, standard install of Ubuntu 12.04. Nothing encrypted. The system
was both installed and updated today.
I enter a password and it says "Logging in". It then stays like that.
You can use the up and down arrow keys which seems to interrupt the
login process, but also prevents you from typing anything into the
password boxes. The only thing you can do is reboot the machine and try
again.
I went into a shell using Ctrl+Alt+F1. I then had a look at the
/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log log file and the logging also appears to be
stuck. The last thing I see is
[+8.02s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user mendhak: Success
[+8.03s] DEBUG: User mendhak authorized
I have attached my lightdm log file. Anything after the 8second mark is
when I rebooted the machine.
I also tried reinstalling the greeter and rebooting.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity-greeter
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
But this had no effect. Still could not log in.
**WORKAROUND**
I noticed that GDM lets you log in.
sudo apt-get install gdm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Then from the options, select gdm and reboot the machine.
** Attachment added: "LightDM log file"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/973993/+attachment/3113948/+files/lightdmlog.txt
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lightdm - can't log in - it hangs after entering password - "Logging
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