Reply for #16: I just upgraded two days ago directly from 11.04 to 11.11 via online update. I never had lightdm on this machine before. Thus the problem exists is in the current version.
AFAIKT the patch repairs the bug but does not fix the root cause, right? (Never mind, just for the sake of completeness. Main thing is that the problem is fixed.) My bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/878515 seems to be a dupe of this one. Only the user which made the upgrade was affected. The other users work. I will try to change ownership/authorizations of ~/.Xauthority this evening. Reply for #19: When will this patch be available for system actualization? When the status of Oneiric changes from "In Progress" to "Fix Committed"? -- 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 Committed Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric: In Progress 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

