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tinhtruong

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 117

GDM Authentication Failure loop

Hi,
I've just done a fresh install GNOME on my laptop and I've a big problem with GDM (2.32.0-4), it keeps saying Authentication Failure when I enter my password, I'm 1000% sure that I enter my password correctly, both for normal user and root user. I can log in using the command line (CTRL+ALT+F1), but can't with GDM. I also tried to use the on-screen keyboard to make sure that my keyboard layout is correct and I pressed the right keys .
I thought there's something wrong about PAM.
Here is the content of /etc/pam.d/gdm

auth           requisite          pam_nologin.so
auth           required           pam_env.so
auth           required           pam_unix.so
auth           optional           pam_gnome_keyring.so
account      required           pam_unix.so
session      required           pam_limits.so
session      required           pam_unix.so
session      optional           pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
password   required           pam_unix.so

I also added my account to the following group:

disk dbus hal network video audio optical storage power users gdm tinh

Any input are apprecicated
Tinh

tinhtruong

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 117

Re: GDM Authentication Failure loop

I also tried with SLIM, same result

tinhtruong

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 117

Re: GDM Authentication Failure loop

There is a workaround for this. Enable autologin in GDM!