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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is anyone experiencing this who's upgraded directly from 11.04 to 11.10?
(i.e. didn't upgrade to any of the Oneiric development releases).  My
guess is there was a version of LightDM that incorrectly wrote this file
with root permissions and upgrading from that version triggers the
problem.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871667

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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