[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#807616: lightdm: Lightdm (and KDM) does not autologin on desktop computers

oldtechaa oldtechaa at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 22:37:32 UTC 2015


Package: lightdm
Version: 1.10.3-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   I have had a problem with autologin on desktop computers.

   * What led up to the situation?
        I attempted to use autologin with lightdm (and kdm for that matter).

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
        I uncommented the lines in lightdm.conf that enable autologin, as can
be seen in the attached lightdm.conf.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
        Nothing happened upon reboot, lightdm still showed a greeter asking for
username and password.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
        I expected lightdm to log me in to my desktop as I had configured it to
do.

Lightdm has only been tested with XFCE, and on a laptop it automatically logs
me in. But on two different desktop computers, it has failed to autologin, and
has continued to ask for username and password. The reason I mention KDM is
because KDM also failed to autologin. All of these were installed on a nearly
clean installation of Debian 8.2 with XFCE, SSH server, and standard system
utilities tasks selected on install.

I can attach the KDM log if you like as well, although it is not very
descriptive.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                                   1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.56
ii  libc6                                  2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libgcrypt20                            1.6.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                           2.42.1-1
ii  libpam-systemd                         215-17+deb8u2
ii  libpam0g                               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libxcb1                                1.10-3+b1
ii  libxdmcp6                              1:1.1.1-1+b1
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter]  1.8.5-2

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.7+7

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii  accountsservice  0.6.37-3+b1
ii  upower           0.99.1-3.2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf changed:
[LightDM]
 autologin-user = oldtechaa
 autologin-user-timeout = 0
[SeatDefaults]
[XDMCPServer]
[VNCServer]


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm



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