I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Your setup is almost identical to mine. % cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#" [LightDM] greeter-user=lightdm minimum-vt=1 log-directory=/var/log/lightdm run-directory=/run/lightdm [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession autologin-user=daniel autologin-user-timeout=0 pam-service=lightdm-autologin [XDMCPServer] [VNCServer] #End of file On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Stephen Baker <baker.stephen.e@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to get autologin working in LightDM on my mediacenter > without success. I believe I've copied all the instructions in the wiki > page, and I'm not seeing where the problem is. > > mediacenter% cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | grep -v "^#" > [LightDM] > minimum-vt=1 > run-directory=/run/lightdm > > autologin-user=family > autologin-user-timeout=0 > [SeatDefaults] > session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession > pam-service=lightdm-autologin > > > [XDMCPServer] > > [VNCServer] > #End of file > > mediacenter% groups > adm disk wheel games video audio optical floppy storage power users family > autologin > > mediacenter% journalctl -b -u lightdm --no-pager > -- Logs begin at Mon 2012-10-22 16:11:18 EDT, end at Thu 2014-06-19 > 22:24:36 EDT. -- > Jun 19 22:12:29 mediacenter systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager. > Jun 19 22:12:36 mediacenter lightdm[699]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): > session opened for user lightdm by (uid=0) > Jun 19 22:16:25 mediacenter lightdm[723]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): > session opened for user family by (uid=0) > > # the last line was my manual login after waiting several minutes. > > Is there anything else I should be checking, or any caveats anyone is > aware of? >