I had the same problem which can be easily reproduced this way: I am logged in on PC A with user “olaf”. Using ssh I log in at PC B with user “chief” and start x: olaf@A: ssh chief@B olaf@A: sudo startx X-Session really starts up on B which I can see. Then I press ctrl+c … connection to x server lost
Now I move over to PC B and want to login with user “chief”. I can't get passed the login screen. In /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log I found the following: [+10.72s] DEBUG: Session pid=1556: Greeter connected version=1.16.7 resettable=false [+10.91s] DEBUG: Session pid=1556: Greeter start authentication for chief [+10.91s] DEBUG: Session pid=1609: Started with service 'lightdm', username 'chief' [+10.92s] DEBUG: Session pid=1609: Got 1 message(s) from PAM [+10.92s] DEBUG: Session pid=1556: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s) [+23.13s] DEBUG: Session pid=1556: Greeter start authentication for olaf [+23.13s] DEBUG: Session pid=1609: Sending SIGTERM [+23.13s] DEBUG: Session pid=1777: Started with service 'lightdm', username 'olaf' [+23.13s] DEBUG: Session pid=1609: Terminated with signal 15 [+23.13s] DEBUG: Session: Failed during authentication [+23.13s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped It seems that lightdm wants to login with user “olaf” and the password I just entered (Greeter start authentication for olaf). Of course this will fail on PC B. Deleting the file Xauthority in the home of user chief on PC B will allow me to login again as chief: chief@B: mv ~/.Xauthority -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1312526 Title: Greeter uses previous session even if it is not available To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1312526/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
