I looked at this a bit more today and indeed, the auth.log messages don't seem to be related to this issue.
The behavior I observe is that when I select 'Guest Session', the screen properly switches to vt9 but soon displays the error message 'authentication failed'. The background is all black, and there doesn't seem to be a window manager loaded since the error message has no window borders and cannot be moved/closed. I switched to vt1 and tailed /var/log/auth.log, and no errors are actually reported there (except for a seemingly innocent line - Jan 18 12:28:39 xyz su[7839]: + ??? root:guest). What was however interesting is that compared to my normal user session on :0, the guest session on :20 doesn't have an associated x-session- manager process. That is, with :0, I see gdm invoking X :0 and x -session-manager. However, with the guest session, I only see gdm invoking X :20. This likely indicates that the X server itself is failing at some point. On a (un)related note, ecryptfs isn't working for me either and I see a few errors related to non-existent .ecryptfsrc file. - Naveen -- 'Authentication failed' when switching to guest session on Intrepid Ibex https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318364 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
