[Bug 45107] Re: autologin didn't work

[kamome]

I'm having the same problem - autologin doesn't work on a rather freshly
installed (beginning of august) and up2date dapper.

I used to have:


AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=jan


in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf - not having read the comments about gdm.conf-custom ;)
But then I reverted this to factory-gdm.conf and made the adjustments in gdm.conf-custom (using gdmsetup), now showing the above entries under the [daemon] section and also setting debug.

What is interesting, is, that when I do "/etc/init.d/gdm restart" the
user does get logged in automatically - never works on bootup, allways
works with restart.

While gdm was still sitting there, as if there wasn't an autologin
specified, /var/log/messages said nothing about gdm (the last entries
being about bluetooth and agpgart, still from booting) but
/var/log/syslog contains (jan being the user to be logged in):


Sep  3 14:19:08 albatros gdm[4214]: set config key daemon/AutomaticLogin to string jan


and ends as follows:


Sep  3 14:19:34 albatros gdm[4685]: gdm_slave_wait_for_login: In loop


Then, after the "/etc/init.d/gdm restart", /var/log/syslog goes on:


Sep  3 14:25:53 albatros gdm[4232]: mainloop_sig_callback: Got signal 15


some more lines, then a lot of "set config key" entries, containing:


Sep  3 14:25:53 albatros gdm[5071]: set config key daemon/AutomaticLogin to string jan


and finally:


Sep  3 14:25:53 albatros gdm[5073]: gdm_main: Here we go...


and on, all looking good to me. I attach the whole /var/log/syslog.


Another bug about failed autologin (but only on 2nd, 3rd... xserver, so it might be unrelated) is #56035 (with workaround)


** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Needs Info => Confirmed

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autologin didn't work
https://launchpad.net/bugs/45107