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@Charlie Kravetz: yes, it's on the GDM login screen. I'm fairly sure
this is not upgrade related -- just about two weeks ago I did a clean
install of Ubuntu 10.04 on my HTPC. This bug was definitely still
present then. The use case is, when the XBMC session (which replaces the
GNOME session in my case, xbmc-standalone) crashes for whatever reason
(which happens occassionally), GDM must log back in, restarting XBMC.
This is desirable because my HTPC (and I think HTPCs in general) is/are
not likely to have any input devices other than a remote connected,
making logging in manually impossible. It just sits there at the login
screen waiting for user input.

This worked on Ubuntu 9.04, which is what I'm currently using, but it
didn't work in 9.10 and it doesn't work in 10.04. This is effectively
blocking me from upgrading my HTPC. The _first_ login works, subsequent
logins _don't_. If I'm not mistaken, restarting gdm also works, but
there is no way of doing that with just the remote, nor is such a thing
very desirable in my opinion.

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gdm ignores timed/auto login on all but first greeter run
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463314
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Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: Triaged
Status in Xubuntu: Invalid
Status in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Mythbuntu upgraded pretty smoothly from 9.04 to 9.10 RC over the Net.  
I initiated the upgrade with the command line "sudo update-manager -d".
The conversion seemed to go ok.  All previous recordings were still accessable, showing the database was ok.

After the upgrade and reboot, the first thing I noticed is that, Mythbuntu 9.10 askes me to log in every time as user eric. It didn't do this in version 9.04, before the upgrade. Before, Mythtv launched at bootup and no login was required.