yes, i can also confirm this, same problem here after upgrading from precise to quantal. your solution works fine, i did not even have to reboot: deleting /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<login> and killing the accounts-daemon (/usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon) is enough.
there was no hint in the logs and i could only fix it after reading your post, so thanks very much. it would probably be very helpful if the developers could add a log message in this case. -- 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/1056833 Title: lightdm failed to log in my user after upgrade to Quantal Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading to Quantal Beta I was initially unable to log in to my user account with lightdm. Guest worked, as did a test account which I created. I think what fixed it was deleting /var/lib/AccountsService/users/michael, which had ubuntu-2d as default session, and rebooting. (Tested various other things unsuccessfully, including temporarily removing * and .??* from my home directory.) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: lightdm 1.3.3-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.23-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Sep 26 14:47:07 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-26 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1056833/+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
