[BALUG-Talk] Lubuntu 14.04 guest session login failure

[Piotr Gabryjeluk]

Also be sure to inspect the X log:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(Compare between the machine that works vs the one that doesn't).

Cheers,
Piotr

On 04/04/2017 12:00 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Christian Einfeldt writes:
>> Right now, however, we are experiencing a failure of logging into the guest
>> session.  Normally, you just choose the guest session in the Lubuntu login
>> screen, and hit enter, and it boots up a full guest session.  No password
>> is required.
>
> If the root account can log in (so you know the desktop is installed
> properly), and it starts to log in but bails out, I'd wonder if
> there's something in the guest account's .bashrc or .profile, or
> other login-time configuration files, that are either preventing
> login or causing an immediate logout.
>
> Have you tried logging in on a console? On the machine, try typing
> ctrl-alt-F2 to get a text console, and try logging in as guest
> there. (Ctrl-alt-F1 or Ctrl-alt-F7 will probably get you back to X,
> but if not, try ctrl-alt- with all the function keys and one of them
> will probably work.) Or if sshd is set up, try sshing to
> guest@themachine from another machine and see if you can log in that
> way; if it isn't set up, log in as root and install openssh-server.
>
> If guest can log in via ssh or text console, but not via X, then
> you know the problem has something to do with guest's desktop
> configuration. Try renaming files or directories or copying them
> from root to see what makes a difference.
>
> If guest still can't log in even on a text console, that makes it a
> lot easier to debug. With any luck, it'll give you an error message
> before it logs you out. If the error message disappears too fast,
> then run script on another machine to record the session, then ssh
> to the machine. If there's no error message, then from your root
> login, try putting debug echo lines in guest's .bashrc and .profile,
> like echo starting .bashrc echo ending .bashrc and so forth; you can
> use those to see what files are being executed and how far it gets
> before things go bad.
>
> Good luck!
>
>         ...Akkana
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