if of any interest and because I hit the same problem as reported in this defect after an upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04, I captured the strace output of lxdm at time of login:
=== before entering login/password: 1294 1 lxdm-binary 1400 1294 \_ /usr/bin/X -background none :0 vt07 -nolisten tcp 1633 1294 \_ /usr/lib/lxdm/lxdm-greeter-gtk === strace -o /tmp/strace.lxde.trc -f -p 1294 -p 1400 -p 1633 === from X window enter login/password === after hang: 1294 1 lxdm-binary 1400 1294 \_ /usr/bin/X -background none :0 vt07 -nolisten tcp 2635 1294 \_ lxdm-binary 2636 2635 \_ [PreLogin] === --- Michel ** Attachment added: "strace output of lxdm and its children" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxdm/+bug/1103777/+attachment/3657436/+files/strace.lxde.trc -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1103777 Title: Login isn't possible To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxdm/+bug/1103777/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
