Failed to start session

[Stephen Partington]

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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