cannot login after upgrade to 13.10

[John Frankland]

since the release upgrade, i have difficulty logging in: the lightdm-unity-greeter
seems to have a short timeout after which the user/password fields disappear
and are replaced by "Remote login" with no possibility to login or return to the
previous screen.
for the moment i am avoiding the problem by using an auto-login configuration.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: unity-greeter 13.10.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 18 14:32:57 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-27 (722 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity-greeter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bert Baron (bertusbaron)]

I have the same problem after an upgrade to 13.10. It was quite a challenge to log in in such a short time frame so I guess this can be a real serious issue for slow typing people. I would be more than happy to provide more details to get this issue resolved.

Since auto-login may not be an acceptable workaround for everyone I suggest to use the lightdm-gtk-greeter instead:

* Use CTRL+F1 to do a console login
* sudo apt-get install lightdm-gtk-greeter
* sudo cp /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.bak
* sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
* Change the greeter-session line to: greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
* Exit (CTRL+X) and safe changes
* sudo service lightdm restart
* logout (exit or CTRL+D)
* Use CTRL+F7 for a graphical login.