[LightDM] Newer version of lightdm for 14.04.1 -- is this possible?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Sun Sep 28 16:23:47 PDT 2014


At Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:40:09 +1300 Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 14.04 LTS will continue to receive updates in the LightDM 1.10 series [1].
> This series contains important bugfixes and occasional backports of new
> features that can be added without modifying existing behaviours. All
> updates to 14.04 LTS need to go through the Stable Release Update process
> [2] which means features need to be carefully tested.

Ok, what do I need to do to get the failure to autologin 'bug' fixed?  Is 
there someplace I should report this bug?  This is the 'bug' where LightDM 
1.10 fails to autologin the Nth time (where N > 1).  Or is this really a bug 
with the Ubuntu Unity greeter?  (BTW: Ubuntu Unity greeter has various issues 
all on its own.)

> 
> --Robert
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/lightdm/1.10
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
> 
> On 28 September 2014 09:39, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > Are there any plans to backport a newer version of lightdm for 14.04 LTS?
> > The
> > current version (1.10.1-0ubuntu1) is 'broken' -- specificly it does not
> > auto-re-login (autologin only works the *first* time, never after the user
> > logs out).  I believe this is fixed in 1.11 (and later).  I don't want to
> > upgrade to 14.10 and land on the upgrade-every-9-months roller coaster.  I
> > would like to stay with 14.04 LTS for its full 5 years and enjoy a stable
> > system (except for lightdm being broken).  (There are some issues with the
> > Unity greeter, but I suspect using an alternitive greeter will fix that.)
> >
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