13.04 is end of life.
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240359
Title:
Unable to login with LightDM on 13.04
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Good day!
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04. After I started my machine I found myself
unable to login into Unity: LightDM started successfully, but every
time I entered my password and hit <Enter> the screen became blank for
a moment and LightDM restarted itself. I rebooted the machine but
nothing changed.
At the same time I was able to login to both my account using CLI and
to Unity session of another user on the same machine.
Here is the contents of /var/log/upstart/lightdm.log
################ lightdm.log starts #####################
Error writing X authority: Failed to write X authority
/home/boris/.Xauthority: Success
Error writing X authority: Failed to write X authority
/home/boris/.Xauthority: Success
Error writing X authority: Failed to write X authority
/home/boris/.Xauthority: Success
/bin/rm: cannot remove '/run/user/veronika/gvfs': Is a directory
Error writing X authority: Failed to write X authority
/home/boris/.Xauthority: Success
Error writing X authority: Failed to write X authority
/home/boris/.Xauthority: Success
Error writing X authority: Failed to write X authority
/home/boris/.Xauthority: Success
Stopping PAM conversation, interaction requested but not supported
Error writing X authority: Failed to write X authority
/home/boris/.Xauthority: Success
Stopping PAM conversation, interaction requested but not supported
Error writing X authority: Failed to write X authority
/home/boris/.Xauthority: Success
Stopping PAM conversation, interaction requested but not supported
################ lightdm.log ends #######################
After this I inspected my home folder with 'ls -al | grep Xauth' on
the account of .Xauthority files and found this:
****************** ls -al /home/boris | grep Xauth
*************************
-rw------- 1 boris boris 176 окт. 16 00:22 .Xauthority
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 0 июля 31 00:25 .Xauthority.4BIT0W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 118 сент. 5 21:57 .Xauthority.5D472W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 118 сент. 7 13:53 .Xauthority.80772W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 59 авг. 27 21:27 .Xauthority.AGBH2W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 0 июля 25 01:07 .Xauthority.IAVU0W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 0 авг. 7 00:54 .Xauthority.ILXO1W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 59 авг. 29 00:19 .Xauthority.JVJ61W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 118 сент. 5 23:12 .Xauthority.K14N2W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 118 сент. 5 21:25 .Xauthority.KE6W2W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 0 июля 25 07:16 .Xauthority.Q9LR0W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 118 авг. 31 23:59 .Xauthority.TMPX2W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 118 сент. 13 00:27 .Xauthority.X1DE3W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 118 сент. 7 12:52 .Xauthority.YPI62W
-rw-rw-r-- 1 boris boris 0 авг. 1 01:20 .Xauthority.Z3170W
************************************************************************
The same command for the account that I was able to log into (seldom
used) produced
::::::::::::::: ls -al /home/veronika/ | grep Xauth
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-rw------- 1 veronika veronika 58 окт. 16 08:33 .Xauthority
-rw-rw-r-- 1 veronika veronika 0 сент. 13 14:28 .Xauthority.4Z3F3W
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Seeing this, I decided to move all the Xauthority files in my home
directory to a temporary folder and tried to login again, this time,
successfully. Here is the current output of 'ls -al /home/boris | grep
Xauth':
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ls -al /home/boris | grep Xauth
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-rw------- 1 boris boris 58 окт. 16 08:39 .Xauthority
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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