[mythtv-users] Autologin lost on upgrade to ubuntu 9.10

sdavmor sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Tue Jan 12 19:42:54 UTC 2010


Stuart Larson wrote:
>>> One quick question since everything else on my upgrade from
>>> Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 went very well.
>>> 
>>> Before the upgrade it would autologin and start mythtv. Now I
>>> get the user login screen. Once I select the user (there's only
>>> one on our media center server) and put in the user password
>>> everything proceeds as before. Where do I need to go to
>>> force-fix this so it starts up and logs itself in as it used to
>>> do?
>> If you are running mythbuntu on your Ubuntu system, you can just
>> go to the mythbuntu control centre. There you can disable/enable
>> the autologin. There is a way to manually do it as well but you
>> can google that as easily as any of us.
> 
> I googled it for the OP (I believe it's basically renaming the
> custom config file in /etc/gdm to custom.conf, and ensuring your
> username is in it.

My apologies for bothering the list with such a doofus question. It's
all right there in the mythbuntu config tools, and works as expected.
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