I can confirm the same behaviour (on two different machines) with accounts from ldap and selecting Gnome in lightdm.
On every reboot regardless of the selection in lightdm a Unity (default) session is launched. On subseqent logins the requested Gnome session is launchen. In lightdm.log [+42.89s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session ubuntu [+42.89s] DEBUG: Using session ubuntu [+43.04s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter [+144.73s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session gnome-shell [+144.73s] DEBUG: Using session gnome-shell [+144.74s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter Also in the greeter if I select Other..., select Gnome, type my username and press enter, then the selection is reverted to Unity in the password dialog. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/896375 Title: lightdm does ignore session selection first time non local user is choosen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/896375/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
