Re: Auto Login Failure

Login to one of the text consoles (ctrl+alt+f1) and run this command:

sudo tail -f /var/log/auth.log

Switch back to the X console (ctrl+alt+f7) and try login. See what it
says in the text console.

Rene

2010/1/26 chris morris <[email protected]>:
> On a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10
>
> I've set the auto-login at 10 seconds seeing as the machine will only ever
> have one user.
>
> Sometimes the auto-login works - some times it doesn't.
> When it fails,  the login does its 10sec countdown, screen goes black and
> then login panel reappears as a manual login.
> When you then type in your password it keeps looping back to the login
> screen.
>
> Restarting the pc fixes it - for a while.
>
> Where or how could I find any error messages related to this?
>
> cheers
> chris
>
>
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