[Bug 1917175] Re: gdm login screen says "Something went wrong please try again" three times and sends me back to the login screen when I'm not typing anything

2022-05-09 Thread Alex Sudakov
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1917178 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1917178 I had a very similar problem: whenever I clicked on a user at a login screen I had to type my password really quick in order for it not to be reset. Then sometimes login process stuck and I had to go into

[Bug 1917175] Re: gdm login screen says "Something went wrong please try again" three times and sends me back to the login screen when I'm not typing anything

2021-03-03 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1917178 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1917178 Sorry, I was imagining a different error screen and couldn't see that error message in the attached video. It's a bit blurry but I will assume that's it... Since there doesn't seem to be any crash there's

[Bug 1917175] Re: gdm login screen says "Something went wrong please try again" three times and sends me back to the login screen when I'm not typing anything

2021-03-03 Thread Daniel van Vugt
"Something went wrong please try again" means something crashed. And different machines with different configurations will experience different crashes. We need to know which crash you are experiencing. If you're not interested in going through the crash reporting instructions, that's OK - we can

[Bug 1917175] Re: gdm login screen says "Something went wrong please try again" three times and sends me back to the login screen when I'm not typing anything

2021-03-03 Thread Jonathan Kamens
I don't understand why you are asking me for a crash report. You don't need a crash report to know what is going on here. I described to you exactly what is going on and exactly how to reproduce the issue: gdm fails in the way I described if libpam-fprintd isn't installed, and the web of

[Bug 1917175] Re: gdm login screen says "Something went wrong please try again" three times and sends me back to the login screen when I'm not typing anything

2021-03-03 Thread Daniel van Vugt
If you would like to keep this bug separate then please follow these instructions to check for crashes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_a_crash_report_or_having_a_.crash_attachment Otherwise we can just group this with bug 1917178. ** Changed in: gdm3 (Ubuntu) Status: New

[Bug 1917175] Re: gdm login screen says "Something went wrong please try again" three times and sends me back to the login screen when I'm not typing anything

2021-02-27 Thread Chris Guiver
Possibly related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fprintd/+bug/1917178 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1917175 Title: gdm login screen says "Something went

[Bug 1917175] Re: gdm login screen says "Something went wrong please try again" three times and sends me back to the login screen when I'm not typing anything

2021-02-27 Thread Jonathan Kamens
I figured out the problem. When I upgraded packages today, it uninstalled fprintd-clients but did not install libpam-fprintd. /etc/pam.d/gdm-fingerprint says that gdm is supposed to open pam_fprintd.so, but it couldn't because it wasn't available any longer. I have no understanding of the