Autologin gets disabled on upgrade

[Wouter Stomp]

Binary package hint: gdm

After upgrading from jaunty to karmic with the new gdm, autologin isn't enabled anymore, while it was enabled previously.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, could you look to gdm.conf-custom and gdm.conf what value is set? it works correct for other users

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

in gdm.conf it looks like it is enabled:

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=wouter

TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=wouter
TimedLoginDelay=10

The -custom file is pretty much empty.

In reality nothing happens and I have to login manually.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

When I add these lines to gdm-conf-custom, it does work:

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=wouter

Apparently the new gdm uses gdm.conf-custom instead of gdm.conf. However the settings should be migrated automatically during upgrade.

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Are you sure you didn't delete the gdm.conf-custom file manually?

I cannot confirm this bug:

*) Purged GDM 2.26 (including all GDM related files a file search returned)
*) Installed GDM 2.20.10-0ubuntu5, /etc/gdm contained the (empty) gdm.conf-custom
*) Used gdmsetup to enable autologin, gdm.conf-custom contained the relevant information
*) Upgraded to GDM 2.26.1-0ubuntu2 - gdm.conf-custom still was there holding the autologin information

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes I am sure I didn't delete that file. I enabled autologin by using
the checkbox in the jaunty installer, maybe that makes a difference?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ubuntu always used gdm.custom-conf for configuration

[Dave Stroud (bigdavesr)]

This happened to me today also after updating. Also have lost the log in window conf. utility to set up log in.

[Dave Stroud (bigdavesr)]

AutomaticLoginEnable=true

AutomaticLogin=bigdavesr

TimedLoginEnable=true

TimedLogin=bigdavesr

TimedLoginDelay=10

DefaultSession=gnome.desktop This is found in my gdm custom. Which is the dame as gdm cinf.