I just rebooted my Natty install and have it set to log me in w/o a
password but am presented with the chooser screen. I am the only user
and there is just one user account. Clicking on the acct. name looks
like it will give me the password field but it just loops back to the
login screen.


What may have happened?

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On 12/9/2011 4:51 AM, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
I just rebooted my Natty install and have it set to log me in w/o a
password but am presented with the chooser screen. I am the only user
and there is just one user account. Clicking on the acct. name looks
like it will give me the password field but it just loops back to the
login screen.


What may have happened?


The only thing I see in dmesg are two messages repeated four times:
NVRM: failed to unregister from ACPI subsystem!
NVRM: failed to register with ACPI subsystem!

I think this may be the first reboot since the last updates, maybe
something got broken?


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On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 04:51:43AM -0600, Curt Tresenriter wrote:
> I just rebooted my Natty install and have it set to log me in w/o a
> password but am presented with the chooser screen. I am the only
> user and there is just one user account. Clicking on the acct. name
> looks like it will give me the password field but it just loops back
> to the login screen.
>
> What may have happened?

Your login session seems to be crashing.

Can you switch to a text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), log in, and look at the
.xsession-errors file for clues (less .xsession-errors)?

Alternatively, try choosing a different session type in the login
screen.

Marius Gedminas
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On 12/9/2011 6:09 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 04:51:43AM -0600, Curt Tresenriter wrote:

I just rebooted my Natty install and have it set to log me in w/o a
password but am presented with the chooser screen. I am the only
user and there is just one user account. Clicking on the acct. name
looks like it will give me the password field but it just loops back
to the login screen.

What may have happened?

Your login session seems to be crashing.

Can you switch to a text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), log in, and look at the
.xsession-errors file for clues (less .xsession-errors)?

Alternatively, try choosing a different session type in the login
screen.

Marius Gedminas

A different session was my first thought after running "fix broken
packages" from the recovery mode, however there are only two choices at
the login screen, one is to shutdown, logoff, etc., the other is
assistive tools or something like that. There is no sessions
choice/button. ACPI was one thing that was updated but made no
difference. Then I found someone who resolved the issue by adding:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection
to the xorg.conf file.
now it's hanging at the splash screen.
I'll give it a few minutes to see if anything happens - can't get to a
console ATM, then I'll have a look at .xsession-errors.




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On 12/9/2011 6:09 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

Your login session seems to be crashing.
Can you switch to a text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), log in, and look
at the
.xsession-errors file for clues (less .xsession-errors)?
Alternatively, try choosing a different session type in the login
screen.
Marius Gedminas






The errors file had the answer.

I'd forgotten that I had also edited some files in an effort to get
synergy to run at boot time.

Removing those edits resolved the issue.

Thanks for the tip and jogging my aging memory.



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