On 19 September 2010 15:44, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have installed Lubuntu 10.04 on a laptop and since upgraded it to > 10.04.1. At the time that I installed it, I noticed that login didn't > work so I set it up to do autologin (i.e. I bypassed the whole LXDM > login screen). That was several months ago and I'd forgotten why I had > set it up like that. So I removed the autologin from > /etc/lxdm/default.conf and /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf. That's when I > remembered why I had set it up like that. :-) So now I can't login any > more. :-( > > The LXDM login doesn't work. I can type in the user name and password > as often as I like, the system doesn't let me login. It just asks for > the user name again. If I try it on the command line (CTRL-ALT-F2) > then it works perfectly. The user exists and has a valid, working > password. I've been googling for hours but I can't figure out what's > wrong. I've tried a few random things (reinstall policykit-1, comment > out pam_gnome_keyring in /etc/pam.d/lxdm) but nothing makes any > difference.
I created a new user/password and I could use this user to login both on the console and via the GUI. I then removed the existing user (the one that could not login) and recreated it. Still no luck. Thoroughly confused I took a brute force approach and reinstalled every package ... to no avail. I still could not login. Console login still worked, mind you. At that point I finally started to reason my way through the problem and I hypothesized that the password (which contains a space) might be the problem. Lo and behold, after changing the password to something without a space, I could login. After I changed the password back to something (different) with a space ("x y" specifically) I could, again, not login. So the problem is that the GUI login somehow does not allow/handle passwords with a space. This sounds like a very nasty bug. Naturally, there may be other problematic characters. Where should I report this? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp