Comment 0 for bug 432492

Binary package hint: gdm

***Problem:-
GDM fails to authenticate users from the login menu.
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***Details:-
1- GDM 1st completely failed to start because of the absence of "/var/log/gdm" (Bug#405227)
2- Making the needed directory, mkdir /var/log/gdm, enabled GDM to start.
3- After the 2nd Ubuntu loading screen,the new dark brown one, 2 errors popped up:
   I- [Could not update ICEauthority file /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority]
   II- [This is a problem with the configuration sever.
        (usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)]
4- User selection menu appeared. And selecting any user gave [Unable to authenticate user]
5- Automatically, the Ubuntu loading screen appeared again and the same senario was repeated.
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**Notes:-
-Reconfiguring Xserver, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and reconfiguring GDM, dpkg-reconfigure gdm, didn't change any of the previously mentioned behaviour.
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Bug was submitted using w2m.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 18 15:13:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gdm 2.27.90-0ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686