In Wily if you set auto login to on during installation the first boot would ask for a password. Then if you checked the user UI in System Settings it said it was turned on but it wasn't. So if you toggled it off, then rebooted, then opened the user UI again and toggled it on the auto login would begin working.
In Xenial it just doesn't work at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1487819 Title: Wily user UI shows auto-login off after selecting on during install Status in gdm package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Just testing Ubuntu GNOME Wily 20150822 i386 and I've noticed that in spite of selecting auto-login = on during installation when the installation is complete and after first boot opening Settings > Users the UI shows off, but auto-login is working properly and if you toggle the UI back and forth from off to on a couple of times it seems to start working properly. I also installed Ubuntu 20150822 i386 and it's not affected so I suspect this is either a bug in gdm or possibly in g-c-c or g-s-d. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: gdm 3.16.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-3.3-generic 4.1.3 Uname: Linux 4.1.0-3-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu7 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sat Aug 22 23:04:29 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-23 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha i386 (20150822) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.gdm.custom.conf: 2015-08-22T21:20:12.826508 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/1487819/+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
