LightDM ignores shell choice, at least for "KDE plasma"

[Ben Pearre]

I just upgraded 11.04 to 11.10. The login manager gives me a cog, upon which I click. I see a list of shells. KDE Plasma is among them. I select it and enter my password. I get not KDE but Unity again. No errors, no offers to install the necessary software, just silent flouting of my wish.

I've selected "KDE" at the login prompt and then re-clicked and sure enough the indicator bullet is next to KDE. So it's accepting my clicks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 1.0.6-0ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 10 00:25:47 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-01-10 (0 days ago)

[Ben Pearre (bwpearre)]

Update: this was true of the other desktop choices as well. The workaround: reboot again. Still a bug, though--at least it should probably recognise the problem and say "You need to reboot again" or something.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Closing assumed fixed.