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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert, do you have some ideas about this one? Colin just ran into the
issue, it seems to happen randomly to some users and virtual let them
with no way to log in (if they don't know to vt switch and rm the file)

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)

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Title:
  .Xauthority sometimes owned by root, which blocks login

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Each time I upgrade to a newer ubuntu on a particular machine, something breaks. Last time I was unable to log in via GDM and I have to reinstall the machine. This time, I upgraded to oneiric today, and, of course, lightdm cannot start unity nor unity-2d: after entering a correct password it just restarts itself.
  This is a report using apport-cli - a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/871664

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 1.0.1-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct 10 11:58:51 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-10 (0 days ago)

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