Does a media center actually need a graphical login manager? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Stephen Baker <baker.stephen.e@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2014-06-20 12:22, Daniel Leining wrote: > >> 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 >> > Ah, I see your autologin-* lines are under [SeatDefaults] and mine are > above. I fixed that and it's working now. > > >> [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? >>> >>> Thanks! > -- Fred Schiff (eldersprig@xxxxxxxxx)
