Description of problem: Lightdm's autologin functionality is broken on F17, with the following settings autologin does not work: user-authority-in-system-dir=true greeter-hide-users = True to hide the user list session-wrapper=/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession greeter-session=lightdm-greeter autologin-user=ce autologin-user-timeout=0 This is caused by a broken pam-configuration file. After copying /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin to /etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin, everything works as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lightdm-1.2.2-16.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Very Actual results: Autologin does not work without manual intervention Expected results: Autologin should work out-of-the box
lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc16
lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc17
Package lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-11074/lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Unfourtunatly, lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc17.i686 doesn't solve the problem - autologin with lightdmfails like it did before applying the update. Overwriting lightdm-autologin with gdm-autologin solves the issue still.
lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
The problem still persists, as mentioned 3 hours ago :(
(In reply to comment #4) > Unfourtunatly, lightdm-1.2.2-17.fc17.i686 doesn't solve the problem - > autologin with lightdmfails like it did before applying the update. > > Overwriting lightdm-autologin with gdm-autologin solves the issue still. Well, thats not helpful. We need logs: at least /var/log/secure and /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log of an failed autologin attempt.
It's working properly here (just tested auto-login with 0 timeout). Clemens, you need to set the default user session. Check the contents of /usr/share/xsessions. Here I changed #user-session=default for user-session=xfce
Sergio: I don't even have a file /usr/share/xsessions, its a directory which contains just a single file named xfce.desktop Are you on F17? I'll re-test soon and provide the required log files.
Please don't shoot - I just gave it a try again and it worked out-of-the-box. Thanks for fixing this issue.