Re: Auto Login Failure

Turns out to be a login screen resolution issue.

Its something that gets changed in the first set of updates.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1338879

If you are using an old CRT ( in this case a 17") the login screen res
is set to high.

Installing startupmanager with synaptic and setting 640x480 fixed the
issue.

chris

Rene Bartosh wrote:

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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