Failed to start session

[Nathan-plug]

The user accounts (both real user and my test) work other machines in 
the area.  I haven't tried renaming the home directory yet.  I'll give 
that a try.

Nathan

On 2016-07-07 19:34, Stephen Partington wrote:
> Have you tried that user on another system? Or a temp rename of home
> to see if there is some config file that is barfing x.
> On Jul 7, 2016 4:04 PM, "Nathan-plug" <plug at trustmeitslegit.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am having a problem that is running me around in circles.
>> 
>> I have an open directory server providing authentication for my
>> users and use Salt to manage my configurations.  I have a
>> workstation that I recently reloaded with Ubuntu 14.04 and
>> everything looked great through Salt but I have a problem logging
>> into the machine.  This is where it gets weird.  I have 2 sessions
>> available, lightdm and xfce.  Lightdm is default and existing users
>> cannot log in (it says "failed to start session") however, if I
>> change to xfce or log in on a terminal I can log in.  After logging
>> in via xfce or terminal, I can then log in as an existing user.
>> It is a little more weird when I decided to stop bugging one of my
>> users during troubleshooting and created a new test account and was
>> able to log in without issue.
>> The only thing I can see in my logs are:
>> 
>> auth.log:Jul  7 13:33:09 ops1 lightdm:
>> pam_succeed_if(lightdm:auth): requirement "user ingroup
>> nopasswdlogin" not met by user "brokenUsername"
>> auth.log:Jul  7 13:33:13 ops1 lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm:auth):
>> authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= 
>> user=brokenUsername
>> 
>> lightdm/lightdm.log:[+79.51s] DEBUG: Session pid=5740: Authenticate
>> result for user brokenUsername: Success
>> lightdm/lightdm.log:[+79.51s] DEBUG: Session pid=5740: User
>> brokenUsername authorized
>> 
>> I though it had something to do with home directory creation but
>> like I said, the new test account I created is working fine.
>> 
>> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Nathan
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