[EdLUG] Lubuntu 14.04 guest session login failure

[Edinburgh Linux Users Group]

Thanks, Michael, I will check that out today!

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Michael Rojas <
ledworldwide.solutions at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> I was wondering when/if that issue would show up again.
>
> The last time it did, I found something on the internet about turning off
> AppArmor.  That seemed to do the trick for the computers that I worked on.
> I wasn't real thrilled about turning AppArmor off, but maybe that will shed
> a little light on the problem so someone else can provide more input?
>
> More info can be found here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor
>
> -Mike Rojas-
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
> 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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Christian Einfeldt
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