I understood what happened : As I had to start X (startx) on my session previously, my .XAutority file was owned by root not myself. I understood that after reinstalling 13.10. So I removed .XAutority and it worked. But I think there should be an error message as there was previously in GDM
** Summary changed: - After reinstall of Trusty, Lightdm can't log me in my session + Lightdm doesn't give any error message when .XAutority is owned by root ** Tags added: regression ** Description changed: Hi So here is what happened : To test if an old bug with menus is still present in Trusty I updated to it, but it went very wrong (no screen at all, I filed this bug by going to recovery mode and FailsafeX). So I tried installing Trusty "from scratch", but I kept my /home. I used the same ID and Password during the installation as I do each reinstall. Reinstall corrected the problem of no screen : I was on lightdm login screen. Then, impossible to log me in : It tried and immediately go back to login screen. I changed the password from tty1 but same problem. But I can open the guest session (from which I make this bug report). What I expected : To be able to login from lightdm as I do each time I have to reinstall the system. + I understood the problem : As I had to sudo startx previously, + .XAutority was owned by root. So Lightdm wasn't able to log me in. But + Lightdm doesn't display any error message explaining why it can't log me + in, as there was previously in GDM. + ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: lightdm 1.9.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-1.16-generic 3.13.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-1-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Jan 12 11:50:36 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-12 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140111) ProcEnviron: - TERM=xterm - PATH=(custom, no user) - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> - LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + TERM=xterm + PATH=(custom, no user) + XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> + LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Description changed: - Hi + (Orignal problem at the end) + + I understood the problem : As I had to sudo startx previously, + .XAutority was owned by root. So Lightdm wasn't able to log me in. But + Lightdm doesn't display any error message explaining why it can't log me + in, as there was previously in GDM. + + HOW to reproduce : made root the owner of the .XAutority file at the + root of your personal home, then try to login via Lightdm. It doesn't + display any message but it doesn't log you. + + ---------------------Original problem :------------------------ So here is what happened : To test if an old bug with menus is still present in Trusty I updated to it, but it went very wrong (no screen at all, I filed this bug by going to recovery mode and FailsafeX). So I tried installing Trusty "from scratch", but I kept my /home. I used the same ID and Password during the installation as I do each reinstall. Reinstall corrected the problem of no screen : I was on lightdm login screen. Then, impossible to log me in : It tried and immediately go back to login screen. I changed the password from tty1 but same problem. But I can open the guest session (from which I make this bug report). What I expected : To be able to login from lightdm as I do each time I have to reinstall the system. - - I understood the problem : As I had to sudo startx previously, - .XAutority was owned by root. So Lightdm wasn't able to log me in. But - Lightdm doesn't display any error message explaining why it can't log me - in, as there was previously in GDM. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: lightdm 1.9.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-1.16-generic 3.13.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-1-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Jan 12 11:50:36 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-12 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140111) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268283 Title: Lightdm doesn't give any error message when .XAutority is owned by root To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1268283/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
