I have this problem too. Installed kdm to circumvent it for the time being.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308043 Title: Kubuntu 14.04: lightdm crashes when user has NFS mounted home directory Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Situation: - Freshly installed machine with Kubuntu 14.04 i386 - Create local user - The home directory is mounted from a server using NFS4 (no Kerberos) On login, lightdm claims that the password of the user is incorrect. The same user can log in without any problems on the console and can access his files. If I create a local home directory (w/o NFS), the user can log in via lightdm as well. What I've seen so far with NFS home directory: After a login attempt, /var/log/syslog shows: [...] Apr 15 14:42:30 pc1326 kernel: [73998.523174] lightdm[13641]: segfault at 0 ip b72a41c7 sp bfd2b2f0 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[b723f000+1a9000] In /var/log/auth.log: [...]Apr 15 14:42:30 pc1326 lightdm: pam_succeed_if(lightdm:auth): requirement "user ingroup nopasswdlogin" not met by user "testuser2" Apr 15 14:42:30 pc1326 lightdm: pam_kwallet(lightdm:auth): pam_sm_authenticate In /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log: [...] [+74103.53s] DEBUG: Session pid=13162: Greeter start authentication for testuser2 [+74103.53s] DEBUG: Session pid=13689: Started with service 'lightdm', username 'testuser2' [+74103.53s] DEBUG: Session pid=13689: Got 1 message(s) from PAM [+74103.53s] DEBUG: Session pid=13162: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s) [+74103.53s] DEBUG: Session pid=13162: Continue authentication [+74103.67s] DEBUG: Session pid=13689: Terminated with signal 11 [+74103.67s] DEBUG: Session: Failed during authentication [+74103.67s] DEBUG: Session pid=13162: Authenticate result for user testuser2: Authentication stopped before completion [+74103.67s] DEBUG: Seat: Session stopped lightdm: Installed: 1.10.0-0ubuntu3 Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1308043/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
