logging in to gnome wayland show blank screen and lightdm is restarted

[Martin Vysny]

I select the Gnome on Wayland login option, then type my password in and press Enter. A blank screen with a blinking cursor appears, and then I am thrown back into the lightdm login screen, without any error message. I am attaching the lightdm.log which has some intriguing error messages.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gnome-session-wayland 3.16.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 22 22:06:22 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-17 (796 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-22 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Tim (awesome8x)]

I was having the same issue in Arch Linux, and I solved it by installing the xwayland package (called xorg-server-xwayland in Arch). Try this:

sudo apt-get install xwayland

[willmo (willmo)]

Bug 1632772 is relevant, at least on recent versions of Ubuntu.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) reached end-of-life on July 28, 2016.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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