[arch-general] LightDM autologin not working

[Germán Gutiérrez]

AFAIU xbmc needs X
El jun 21, 2014 10:16 AM, "Fred Schiff" <eldersprig at gmail.com> escribió:

> 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!
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Fred Schiff (eldersprig at gmail.com)
>