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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The logs don't show anything unexpected, but it does appear to have the
same symptoms as in bug 851345.  Doug, can you check if the lightdm
process is running after the problem occurs and if dmesg shows it has
crashed?

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Title:
  random login without common admin user permissions

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This has shown up starting with daily from 09/27 where happened often,
  currently on install using daily from 0/29 updated where it happened
  just once so far out of 6 or so restarts

  Symptoms are:
  synaptic will fail to start from desktop icon
  nm-applet fails to start, shows no connection (but i am connected
  external drives can't be mounted
  a restart  and or shutdown from  session indicator will fail
  update-manager will not check for updates
  In all the above I have no permission to do so

  ~/.xession-errors is owned by root - attached

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Sep 30 02:52:25 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110929)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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