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lightdm package

Oneiric ALPHA 2 after updates unable to login

Bug #813390 reported by Mark Nighswonger
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

When the login screen comes up if you hit enter or select user with cursor the login window disappears. You are left with the desktop background with no icons or unity panel. Just a pretty purple screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 0.4.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 20 04:21:06 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110705.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Mark Nighswonger (marknigh) wrote :
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Mark Nighswonger (marknigh) wrote :

I obtained all the updates from the CLI. But I keep getting the Barney screen!

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Mark Nighswonger (marknigh) wrote :

This started over here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+question/165373 If you want to see what we did thus far!

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) wrote :

I had incorrectly indicated in that question that this was a bug in lightdm. I was mistaken. The best way to deal with this is to re-report it (against unity or unity-2d in Ubuntu). Please see the question for details. I'm marking this report Invalid. I apologize for my error.

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) wrote :

Eliah,

I don't know how you deduced this is not a bug in lightdm. I can tell you it is because if you roll back lightdm to 0.4.1 then it works just fine. Don't report any bugs in unity about this problem

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) wrote :

I guess I was thinking clearer the first time around. This resembles a number of problems people have had after updates to unity, compiz, or video drivers, but on reflection I can see that the necessary elements to show it wasn't about lightdm were not present. I apologize.

@Mark Nighswonger
Not that my advice will seem very credible now ( ;-) ), but as Brendan Donegan says, you should not report a new bug against unity for this; it's (almost certainly) in lightdm after all.

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) wrote :

That's okay, regardless this bug is a duplicate of one already raised. A lot of people have been having this problem.

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Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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