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[Aryeh Gregor <ayg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In reply to comment #1: the bug is not invalid, and this is not a local
issue.  See bug #888355 for detailed steps to reproduce.  The
combination of these two preferences makes login impossible.  The user
administration tool should make such combinations impossible (bug
#888355), but if they do occur somehow, gdm should ask for the password
so that it can decrypt the home directory.  At the very least, it should
raise a clear error message.  Currently it gives very cryptic errors and
login hangs (on Ubuntu 11.04), or it gives no error message at all and
just returns you to the login screen (on Ubuntu 11.10).  There's
definitely room for improvement here.

** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => New

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Title:
  Automatic login fails and computer hangs (Lucid)

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gdm

  1) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

  2) 
  gdm:
    Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu5
    Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu5
    Version table:
   *** 2.30.0-0ubuntu5 0
          500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) I expected Ubuntu to login "automatically" when booting: 
  In the screen System > Administration > Users and Groups > Password > Change I select the box 'Don't ask for password on login' (automatic login). 

  4) Instead, when I boot the computer:

  - It boots fine until the login screen is loaded

  - Then I select my account on the login screen.

  - Next, I get a bunch of different error messages, in the following
  order:

  (1) "Could not update ICEauthority file /home/user/.ICEauthority"
  (2) Error message that reads something like: Problem with the configuration server, ....
  (3) Error from Nautilus: (translated from dutch): Cannot create mandatory directories: /home/user/Desktop
  /home/user/.nautilus
  (4) Update Window: "Record your encryption passphrase" > No idea what I have to do with this, if I execute the suggested action, this has no effect, and the system doesn't respond as indicated in the window itself.
  (5) Now I get the blank default Desktop background, with nothing on it (no menu's, links, etc.)
  I am sort of logged in however, because I can get a screen to shut down, restart etc., when pushing my computer's on/off button. And after a break I get the normal login window that asks my password. If I enter it, the system hangs.

  > Maybe this bug has to do with messed up file permissions? I have no
  idea. Maybe it's related to the fact that my home directory is
  encrypted (encryptfs)

  Work-around to be able to login again and turn autmatic login off:
  boot with recovery mode, log in manually from the command prompt, and
  run 'startx' to start up ubuntu.

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