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[Charlie Kravetz <charlie-tca@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This also occurrs on every installation, both i386 and amd64. If the
user does not select Xubuntu Session at first login, the user is given a
blank Ubuntu wallpaper and can not do anything. They must then go to a
tty and login, restart lightdm, login again, and choose a session.

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** Summary changed:

- After xubuntu upgrade, default session on greeter must be xubuntu
+ After xubuntu upgrade or installation, default session on greeter must be xubuntu

** Description changed:

  upgrade from up to date Xubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 on AMD64
  
  The upgrade went fine, but after reboot and logging in, the session
  doesn't start.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 0.4.2-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
  Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jul  6 12:34:25 2011
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-06 (0 days ago)
+ 
+ WORKAROUND:
+ Users must select a session when logging in the first time. If no session is selected, the user will see the Ubuntu wallpaper, and nothing else. In this case, go to a tty using Ctrl+Alt+F2, login, and type 
+ 
+ sudo service lightdm restart
+ 
+ Now the user can login again, and select the session.

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Title:
  After xubuntu upgrade or installation, default session on greeter must
  be xubuntu

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