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What was the installer editing instead? (is there some dangling file
edits hanging around somewhere now?) -- I see from above that it was
editing "/etc/gdm/...", on my system fully updated though, there is no
dangling files in /etc/gdm/, so that's good.

This is what is actually needed (as we know):
{{{
$ cat /etc/gdm3/custom.conf | grep Auto
AutomaticLoginEnable = true
AutomaticLogin = <USER>
}}}

Even if we fixed the installer, what to do about all the existing
versions with the bug?

Will we have it auto-correct once the user runs patch updates? - or are
they just stuck with googling to find this bug report and then have to
fix it manually? :(

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Title:
  No auto login in Ubuntu GNOME Xenial

Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Fix Released
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in sddm package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Just installed Ubuntu GNOME Xenial 20160218 amd64 and selected to auto
  login during installation, but once the installation was complete and
  I booted into Ubuntu GNOME I was asked for my password. I looked in
  the user UI and auto login was set to off, so I unlocked it, selected
  auto login = on, clicked on lock again, and rebooted but was once
  again asked for my password and the user UI once again showed auto
  login = off.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: gdm3 3.18.2-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Thu Feb 18 20:26:14 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-19 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160218)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gdm3
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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