This happened to me after a fresh install of beta2. Everything was well and good (used for days with Unity) before I installed xfce4. I used xfce4 for a few days, then tried to switch back. I couldn't select the Unity WM option (unclickable) in lightdm. So I completely uninstalled xfce4 and now lightdm doesn't show any options (should go automatically to Unity) but just loops back to itself.
I checked ~/.dmrc and it says session=xfce which I change to ubuntu and reloading lightdm, if I try to login again it rewrites ~/.dmrc back to xfce and I'm bounced back to the login screen. -- 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/952149 Title: lightdm doesn't load unity sessions Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 12.04 Beta 1 lightdm 1.1.7 Since a recent upgrade in lightdm is unable to login my Unity sessions. Actually my Unity sessions were also missing after this recent update. After installing ubuntu-desktop lightdm still is unable to log in. After entering my credentials it just cycles back to itself rather than booting the DE. I've worked around this by using gdm which I activated with 'sudo dkpg-reconfigure lightdm' and choosing gdm from the menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: lightdm 1.1.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Mar 11 06:31:09 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-29 (11 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/952149/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
