enable auto login doesnt work reply 2

[stevef]

Enabling auto login using the GUI method I used changed the file

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

and put my user name on the line 'autologin-user='

Errors in this file if manually edited can cause lock out. 

[stevef]

I just noticed - if you are on version 3.8, you need to upgrade as this is not supported any longer.
Advice given relates to current version - sorry.

[george79]

I just noticed - if you are on version 3.8, you need to upgrade as this is not supported any longer.
Advice given relates to current version - sorry.

It did work for 2 days and then stopped. I cannot upgrade. This is 32 bit hardware and version 3.8 is the last to support it.

Wysłane z mojego Pixel 4a przy użyciu Tapatalka

[george79]

OK, I know what to change to make it work, but I dont' know WHY...

Yesterday I put a new line in /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf to activate the new module "nvidia.conf". This is new module and it only enables AGP 4x on my GeForce 6600GT GPU.
From that time auto login stopped working. I deleted the "nvidia.conf" module from /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf so no module is loaded in this file anymore (the nvidia.conf was the only module to load here) and now auto login works again.

Conclusion: activating any module in /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf interferes witch auto login function.
I dont know why.

Maybe someone can figure it out? Now I have to chose to have AGP 4x working or Auto Login working.