I'm having the same problem - autologin doesn't work on a rather freshly
installed (beginning of august) and up2date dapper.
I used to have:
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=jan
in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf - not having read the comments about gdm.conf-custom ;)
But then I reverted this to factory-gdm.conf and made the adjustments in
gdm.conf-custom (using gdmsetup), now showing the above entries under the
[daemon] section and also setting debug.
What is interesting, is, that when I do "/etc/init.d/gdm restart" the
user does get logged in automatically - never works on bootup, allways
works with restart.
While gdm was still sitting there, as if there wasn't an autologin
specified, /var/log/messages said nothing about gdm (the last entries
being about bluetooth and agpgart, still from booting) but
/var/log/syslog contains (jan being the user to be logged in):
Sep 3 14:19:08 albatros gdm[4214]: set config key daemon/AutomaticLogin to
string jan
and ends as follows:
Sep 3 14:19:34 albatros gdm[4685]: gdm_slave_wait_for_login: In loop
Then, after the "/etc/init.d/gdm restart", /var/log/syslog goes on:
Sep 3 14:25:53 albatros gdm[4232]: mainloop_sig_callback: Got signal 15
some more lines, then a lot of "set config key" entries, containing:
Sep 3 14:25:53 albatros gdm[5071]: set config key daemon/AutomaticLogin to
string jan
and finally:
Sep 3 14:25:53 albatros gdm[5073]: gdm_main: Here we go...
and on, all looking good to me. I attach the whole /var/log/syslog.
Another bug about failed autologin (but only on 2nd, 3rd... xserver, so it
might be unrelated) is #56035 (with workaround)
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Needs Info => Confirmed
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autologin didn't work
https://launchpad.net/bugs/45107
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