#876029 lightdm: Config line "autologin-user" regularly fails if "autologin-user-timeout" is not set

Package:
lightdm
Source:
lightdm
Description:
simple display manager
Submitter:
Julien ROBIN
Date:
2017-09-17 15:39:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#876029#5
Date:
2017-09-17 15:15:52 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

When editing /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf in order to enable autologin-user, on
some boots, the setting sometimes have no effects, and the autologin doen't
happen everytime.

But as a Workaround, if the autologin-timeout is set (to 5 seconds for
example), then after 5 seconds waiting on the login screen, the autologin
always happen.

This workaround is not perfect, it's consuming time to load the user login
screen for nothing and wait for nothing; also I'm not sure of what happen on a
slow computer if 5 second is not enough ?

I have this problem on all of my computers since Debian Stretch. Never had
before, with Debian Jessie.

Thank you in advance !

Best regards,
Julien ROBIN