[mythtv-users] Autologin lost on upgrade to ubuntu 9.10

[Stuart Larson]

>> One quick question since everything else on my upgrade from Ubuntu
>> 9.04 to 9.10 went very well.
>>
>> Before the upgrade it would autologin and start mythtv. Now I get
>> the user login screen. Once I select the user (there's only one on
>> our media center server) and put in the user password everything
>> proceeds as before. Where do I need to go to force-fix this so it
>> starts up and logs itself in as it used to do?
>
> If you are running mythbuntu on your Ubuntu system, you can just go to
> the mythbuntu control centre. There you can disable/enable the
> autologin. There is a way to manually do it as well but you can google
> that as easily as any of us.

I googled it for the OP (I believe it's basically renaming the custom
config file in /etc/gdm to custom.conf, and ensuring your username is in
it.