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[Eli Spizzichino <871667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I bumped into this as well, with lightdm and gdm after a release upgrade from 11.04. 
The proposed solution to remove, ~/.Xauthority and ~/.ICEauthority doesn't work for me.
I still don't have the solution of what triggers this but I suggest to fiddle with .profile, excluding some lines make the issue apparently go away. (However I can't afford to comment out addsshagent or virtualenwrapper in my setup)
I notice a weird thing: even declaring a simple function in my .profile triggers the problem ie:
damn() { export foo="boo" }
damn

this cause the gdm/lightdm not to login as described here. Does this
make any sense to you? Do you experience the same?

With kdm (no matters if I go to kde or gnome) my usual .profile expose
no problems and I can enter but I have another possibly related issue it
fails to gracefully terminate the session the screen remains still with
just the background and the mouse pointer (still working) with no
activity!

On three stupid login programs I can't even use one. 
if you have ideas please suggest, I don't think I have a very special setup but I'll post info if required

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

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Committed

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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