Guest account not working

[SudeepShakya]

I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 and i'am just a beginner, I have one root account and a guest account, But it been sometime, when i click guest account on the login screen, it displays texts on the black screen and returns again to the login screen. Everytime it is same, I cannot login to guest account, But the root account works normally and the systems runs well. I also tried User Accounts but couldn't solve.

[SudeepShakya]

Hello, anybody there ??

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

Enter this command in the terminal and post the results.

cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[gscratch]

this is a brand-new 12.04 on 'generic' hardware

I have this exact problem. my regular user account works correctly, but whenever I try to 'change accounts' to the "Guest" or reboot and try to log in to the "Guest" account, the screen goes black for a fraction of a second, then returns to the login screen.

The results of the cat recommended above are here

glen@wildcat:~$ cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[SeatDefaults]
user-session=ubuntu
greeter-session=unity-greeter
glen@wildcat:~$

thanks,

[NikTh]

Hello ,

try this

gksudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

and add this line to the end

allow-guest=true

save the document and reboot to try again.

Thanks

[gscratch]

thanks. unfortunately, the problem remains.
since you didn't specify, I assumed that it made no difference where in file that line was put:

glen@wildcat:~$ cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[SeatDefaults]
user-session=ubuntu
greeter-session=unity-greeter
allow-guest=true
glen@wildcat:~$

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

Did you update after the fresh install of 12.04? There was a regression bug in lightdm that caused that problem but has been fixed.

[gscratch]

thanks. I have just run Update Manager and it says 'There are no new updates to install" and "the package information was updated 8 hours ago"

Is there some separate update that I should run ?

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

That update would have taken care of the bug. You have some other problem. I will see if I can find a solution using google; however, most people have had problem with the user account not working but the Guest account does work.

[gscratch]

thanks for help.

it's not critical, but I'd like to have the "Guest" account working next week.