[Bug 974938] [NEW] Process "gsettings" prevents logging in

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When I try to login with my newly upgraded Ubuntu 12.04 (development
branch), nothing happens. It just shows the same empty background that
LightDm has.

I have found one solution to get myself logged: If I go to virtual
console and display what processes I have, there are about six
processes, and one of them is "gsettings". It does not consume any CPU
resources, and when I kill it (with -3), the login process immediately
continues and finally gets me logged in. To my knowledge, gsettings
comes from package libglib2.0-bin and I have version 2.32.0-1ubuntu1 of
it.

How to reproduce:
1 Try to log in.
2 Wait for several minutes to be sure it is stuck
3 Go to virtual console and killall -3 gsettings
4 Logging in immediately continues and finally completes in few seconds

Possible causes:
1 I'm using LDAP. My user information comes from LDAP-server, and this has caused lots of other logging problems, thanks to software developers not realizing the fact, that people use stuff like LDAP.
2 I had some problems when upgrading to 12.04, so that might have screwed things up. The funny thing is, that logging in works on my other PC, which has almost identical system and package configuration. So if you give me some hints, I can try to compare differences between them.

** Affects: libnss-ldap (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: New

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Process "gsettings" prevents logging in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974938
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