No error message when logging in from GUI to user without write permissions on ~

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

I installed afresh 11.10 beta, updated, and recreated my old user by copying the folder to /home and creating a new user with the same name. I ended up by mistake getting the wrong ownership of the home folder.

From the login screen, when I choose the pre-existing user and type in the password, the screen goes blank as though it's going to loog in, but then it bounced right back to the log in screen with no error message.

The problem is that there's no indication of what went wrong, and there should be.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 28 07:26:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

It probably shouldn't say why you couldn't log in, but it would be nice to say something like "Failed to start session, contact system administrator". The reason will be in the logs.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you add your lightdm.log to the bug?

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

This is /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log after a user cpblt without write permissions tried to log in from the lightdm