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[Doug McMahon <863054@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ignore that comment about "for me", my ignorance, didn't recollect seeing rooot for lightdm in ps before
Anyway here is what's running on a good login - 

root       967  0.2  0.1  41188  3808 ?        Ssl  00:59   0:00 lightdm
root      1022  6.2  1.2  55140 38932 tty7     Ss+  00:59   0:02 /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none
lightdm   1366  0.2  0.1  98096  4952 ?        S<l  00:59   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
lightdm   1389  0.0  0.0  13292  2560 ?        S    00:59   0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
doug      1808  0.0  0.0   4448   804 pts/0    S+   01:00   0:00 grep --color=auto lightdm

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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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