Okay, I found out what was causing the problem. esd was stuck and once i killed it, login resumed normally. I was able to reproduce this twice - each time esd was stuck. An strace on it showed it had stopped on poll().
Sujith. -- [feisty alpha 4] unable to login through gdm https://launchpad.net/bugs/87501 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
