Christos Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Hi, Just did a new armbian build Armbian_21.02.0-trunk_Orangepipc_buster_current_5.10.6_desktop and flashed the image. It works ok but after some reboot times the auto login to desktop is not working anymore and it prompts for user login. Tried quite a few times to re-install but always after a few shutdown and start again cycles it reverts to login prompt and not auto login. Also tried to find a solution in the forum but the files and config involved in previous solutions is no longer valid in the newer builds (/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf or /etc/default/nodm). So the question is this, how can I configure the systen for having auto login ? Christos 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werner Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Moved to Common issues / peer to peer technical support 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Need to check armbian-config, but you can try this in the mean time: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin#L297-L304 11 hours ago, Christos said: It works ok but after some reboot times the auto login to desktop is not working anymore and it prompts for user login. This is now / since some time / the defaults. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 Thanks @Igor Hmm.. file (22-armbian-autologin.conf) looks not present now christos@orangepipc:/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d$ ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110 Jan 15 18:39 11-armbian.conf christos@orangepipc:/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d$ I added the file manually with the indicated contents and now it does work and autologin is ok. Did though a new install and seen that the specific autologin config file is there present.. I'm gonna use another microsd just in case, it a first to have such issue (using SanDisk A1 16GB) but who knows. Thanks Christos 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 12 minutes ago, Christos said: looks not present now That is expected. Later on a timer starts which delete this file: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin#L318-L319 We figured out that it's best to provide autologin only at first run. If you want to have it always, you have to enable it manually by creating such file or that used to work fine via armbian-config, but it needs to be checked and fixed if it doesn't work anymore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 Ohh.. ok @Igor, So its not a gremlin :-)) It got really weird but now its explained, thanks. So, what is the appropriate procedure if someone wants to have the autologin always enabled? You mentioned armbian-config but I could not find any relevant option there to use, could it be removed at some time or should I look better? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Igor Posted January 16, 2021 Solution Share Posted January 16, 2021 3 hours ago, Christos said: So, what is the appropriate procedure if someone wants to have the autologin always enabled? I already explained in my 1st reply. copy https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin#L297-L304 exchange $realusername with your username and paste. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 Thanks @Igor , I thought based on what you said that there is some other method with armbian-config, ok no worries. I got it now, it seems that the remove auto login service is a one-off, so it runs once after 10mins and removes the auto login and it never runs again so if we put again back the deleted file everything will be ok. Thanks again Christos 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balbes150 Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 IMHO earlier, in all Armbian builds, autologin was enabled by default and all users are used to this behavior, so it is advisable to keep this in new versions (i.e. make autologin enabled by default and disable autologin yourself, through the armbian-config setting). For many users, this will preserve the usual behavior and at the same time allow you to disable autologin (if necessary). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niinam Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 On 1/17/2021 at 3:41 AM, Igor said: I already explained in my 1st reply. copy https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin#L297-L304 exchange $realusername with your username and paste. I use rockpro64 on version 21.08 . I tried everything according to the boss's instructions On armbian 21.08 for rockpro64 there are no these files ((/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf or /etc/default/nodm). I removed these 2 lines (https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin#L297-L304) and then changed "root" " to my username but it still doesn't auto-login, requires password to login. Also at these links (https://forum.armbian.com/topic/1903-autologin-to-armbian-console/) I tried but everything is useless. At this path(https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/lib/armbian/armbian-firstlogin#L297-L304) I replace 21 name $realusername to username but it still asks for password when logging in Maybe my actions are wrong, so when I go to the login interface, they always ask me to enter a password to use. I want to auto login without using password, please help me, thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dracke Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 This worked for me: added the following two lines to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/11-armbian.conf autologin-user=<YOUR USER> autologin-user-timeout=0 the complete file: [Seat:*] autologin-user=pi autologin-user-timeout=0 user-session=xfce greeter-show-manual-login=false greeter-hide-users=false allow-guest=false Note that I also removed the password for my user (in my case 'pi') 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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