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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

  1. Bug #516520
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 516520

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: lucid lynx - login screen stuck in a loop - SYSTEM BROKEN

> Mar 29 18:24:26 tom-laptop gdm-session-worker[1237]: pam_succeed_if(gdm:auth): requirement "user ingroup nopasswdlogin" not met by user "thomas"
> Mar 29 18:30:58 tom-laptop login[1213]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user thomas by LOGIN(uid=0)

This shows that somewhere between the middle of the auth stack and the session stack, the login fails silently.

Can you post the contents of your /etc/pam.d/common-auth and /etc/pam.d/common-account files? Have you modified these files by hand in the past?