[arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

Stephen Baker baker.stephen.e at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 22:27:06 EDT 2014


Hello,

I've been trying to get autologin working in LightDM on my mediacenter 
without success.  I believe I've copied all the instructions in the wiki 
page, and I'm not seeing where the problem is.

mediacenter% cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#"
[LightDM]
minimum-vt=1
run-directory=/run/lightdm

autologin-user=family
autologin-user-timeout=0
[SeatDefaults]
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession
pam-service=lightdm-autologin


[XDMCPServer]

[VNCServer]
#End of file

mediacenter% groups
adm disk wheel games video audio optical floppy storage power users 
family autologin

mediacenter% journalctl -b -u lightdm --no-pager
-- Logs begin at Mon 2012-10-22 16:11:18 EDT, end at Thu 2014-06-19 
22:24:36 EDT. --
Jun 19 22:12:29 mediacenter systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Jun 19 22:12:36 mediacenter lightdm[699]: 
pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightdm by 
(uid=0)
Jun 19 22:16:25 mediacenter lightdm[723]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): 
session opened for user family by (uid=0)

# the last line was my manual login after waiting several minutes.

Is there anything else I should be checking, or any caveats anyone is 
aware of?


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