[arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

[Fred Schiff]

Does a media center actually need a graphical login manager?


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Stephen Baker <baker.stephen.e at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2014-06-20 12:22, Daniel Leining wrote:
>
>> I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Your setup is almost identical
>> to mine.
>>
>>   % cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#"
>> [LightDM]
>> greeter-user=lightdm
>> minimum-vt=1
>> log-directory=/var/log/lightdm
>> run-directory=/run/lightdm
>>
>> [SeatDefaults]
>> greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
>> session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession
>> autologin-user=daniel
>> autologin-user-timeout=0
>> pam-service=lightdm-autologin
>>
> Ah, I see your autologin-* lines are under [SeatDefaults] and mine are
> above.  I fixed that and it's working now.
>
>
>> [XDMCPServer]
>>
>> [VNCServer]
>> #End of file
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Stephen Baker <
>> baker.stephen.e at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  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?
>>>
>>>  Thanks!
>



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Fred Schiff (eldersprig at gmail.com)