A colleague of mine was also affected by this bug upgrading to 12.04. Just had to change the owner of the .Xauthority file: chown myuser:myuser /home/myuser/.Xauthority (.Xauthority was previously owned by root).
But from the user point of view, this bug is really hard to understand. When he try to login, the screen just get back to the login screen after few seconds. There is no error message, neither no log about what is the issue anywhere. It would be good to at least have an error message giving a clue about what is the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871667 Title: .Xauthority sometimes owned by root, which blocks login Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric: Fix Released Bug description: Each time I upgrade to a newer ubuntu on a particular machine, something breaks. Last time I was unable to log in via GDM and I have to reinstall the machine. This time, I upgraded to oneiric today, and, of course, lightdm cannot start unity nor unity-2d: after entering a correct password it just restarts itself. This is a report using apport-cli - a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/871664 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 1.0.1-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Oct 10 11:58:51 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-10 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/871667/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
