Using Light DM throws up startup screen during password prompts

[Wei-Yee Chan]

Binary package hint: ldm

Frequently, when entering the password at the login screen or during password prompts (such as when launching synaptic, when the administrative password is needed), everything reverts to the startup screen and the entire system just hangs there.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ldm (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 19 03:43:57 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AG
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ldm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Is that LightDM (as in, Ubuntu's new display manager) or LDM (LTSP's display manager)?

The above data shows that "ldm" isn't installed on your system so it seems like you're instead talking of "lightdm".

[Wei-Yee Chan (chanweiyee)]

Hi,

I confirm that it's ldm - LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) display manager.

I had to uninstall it first using the terminal because it made reporting this bug impossible. Whenever I tried to fill in some words in the fields of the bug report page, I'd get thrown back to the startup screen.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ldm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]