Trying to auto-login with encrypted directory should log an error

Bug #997206 reported by Jonathan Davies
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Light Display Manager
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

LightDM should fail with an error message about a user's encrypted home directory when the admin has mistakenly enabled auto-login for that user; rather than erroring with:

[+1.18s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges
[+1.22s] DEBUG: Starting session ubuntu as user ubuntu
[+1.22s] DEBUG: Session 1422 running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-session gnome-session --session=ubuntu
[+1.36s] DEBUG: New display ready, switching to it
[+1.36s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
[+1.36s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
[+1.36s] DEBUG: Session 1422 exited with return value 1
[+1.36s] DEBUG: User session quit
[+1.36s] DEBUG: Stopping display
[+1.36s] DEBUG: Sending signal 15 to process 1276
[+1.49s] DEBUG: Process 1276 exited with return value 0
[+1.49s] DEBUG: X server stopped

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in lightdm:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
summary: - Auto-login with encrypted directory should be logged
+ Try to auto-login with encrypted directory should log an error
summary: - Try to auto-login with encrypted directory should log an error
+ Trying to auto-login with encrypted directory should log an error
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