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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Hi Christian</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">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?</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">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)</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Let us know how you get on.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Regards<br>
Geetam</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">---<br>
I don't know<br>
...<br>
I don't know what it is<br>
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I don't know what it is that I don't know</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">Isn't it beautiful<br>
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4 April 2017 07:19:28 Edinburgh Linux Users Group
<edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk> wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.
</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I ran updates on the malfunctioning
machines, rebooted, no joy.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks very much in
advance.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"
data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Christian Einfeldt</div>
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