Login failure after restart. Every time.

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 27 March 2012 14:35, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 27 March 2012 06:25, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Happy I'm not, but I'm satisfied the filesystem is clean.  I still
>>>> have the original problem.  I've filed a bug, but from the looks of it
>>>> it's just one of a great many bugs involving X crashes, freezes or
>>>> misbehavior, so I don't expect fast action.  I would be *happy* to be
>>>> wrong about that last bit.
>>>
>>> Have you tried logging in as a different user to see whether it is a
>>> system problem or something to do with your user setup?
>>
>> I have not, because there is no other user.  Well, there *is* root, I
>> suppose.  The machine is busy right now; I may try later.
>
> It is worth making a test user for just this sort of situation.
>
>>
>> It has also occurred to me to mark the beginning and end of the first
>> two login attempts in the various logs, to see what's different.
>
> Good idea.
>
> Colin Law BSc (Hons)

It happens that I can no longer do this, as the problem went away more
or less by itself.  I don't keep a close watch on the updates I
install, but there have been several and one of them may have fixed
it.

Anyway, it's fixed.  For now.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD