gdm-simple-greeter: Unable to find users: no seat-id found

[Brian Kemp]

Binary package hint: gdm

Machine upgraded from 8.04. 4 user accounts (alan mary ryan brian); machine was configured with timed login to log alan in after 30 seconds.

Machine boots to gdm screen, shows gdm simple greeter screen with machine name.
gdm log has this error message: Unable to find users: no seat-id found

No users show up on the list. "Other..." option is unavailable.

Unable to log in with this screen. Switching to virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-f1, etc.) allows us to log a user in in text mode; have not tested startx while logged in as a normal user. "startx" from recovery console (root login) works.

`pkill -9 gdm` and restarting it with `sudo gdm &` has no effect.

[Brian Kemp (brian-kemp)]

Since this hasn't been triaged: I switched to kdm. I can add more information upon request, but I'm unsure what to add here.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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