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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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