[EdLUG] Lubuntu 14.04 guest session login failure

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

Hi Christian

Are you saying that this problem occurs on one machine only? Could it be 
that a "guest" has tried to make changes to the guest login and has broken 
something?

If these machines are all standard installs, would it be simpler to 
reinstall instead of trying to solve a mysterious problem? If reinstalling 
seems too much work (if there are a lot of customisations) I suggest making 
an image backup (from one of the working machines) and restore (may be 
handy to keep an image backup for this purpose anyway)

Let us know how you get on.

Regards
Geetam

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On 4 April 2017 07:19:28 Edinburgh Linux Users Group 
<edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am experiencing a very strange thing for which there are no ready answers
> by googling.  I am a volunteer for a non-profit which puts GNU-Linux
> computers in low income shelters.  They are stand-alone machines connected
> directly to the Internet via a hub on a dedicated ethernet cable.
>
> The shelters don't want the users to be able to store anything directly to
> the machine's hard drive.  To give them that functionality, we ask them to
> use the guest session, which wipes out all data by default when the session
> ends.
>
> 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.
>
> Now, when I chose the guest session and hit enter, the system appears to
> head toward a normal login, but then quickly fails and returns to the login
> screen.
>
> The system's SU admin account is performing normally.  To get into the
> admin account, I just choose it in the login screen, enter the password,
> and the admin session boots up normally.
>
> This whole thing is very strange, and I have never seen anything like it
> before.  We are using 14.04 on 13 machines with identical or similar
> hardware and are not having any such problems.  This email is being written
> on one of those such machines, and the guest session works just fine.
>
> I ran updates on the malfunctioning machines, rebooted, no joy.
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> --
> Christian Einfeldt
>
>
>
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