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[Gutsy] gdmsetup does not use or remember a user-supplied welcome message

Bug #159789 reported by Martin Holmes
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

If you start the Login Window Preferences applet, click on the Local tab, and choose Custom for Welcome message, then provide your own welcome message, this will be ignored when the login window is shown. The Custom message will be retained in the applet during the session, then lost on reboot, and replaced with the default "Welcome".

Not major, but annoying. This worked fine in Feisty.

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Martin Holmes (mholmes) wrote :

It appears that gdmsetup is failing to write to /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom. Editing that file manually works OK.

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Motin (motin) wrote :

I can confirm this bug. However it is not restricted to the welcome message in my case: Nothing I change in gdmsetup gets saved at all. When running from the terminal, these errors come up frequently:

gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_to_data: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_file_set_contents: assertion `contents != NULL || length == 0' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_to_data: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_file_set_contents: assertion `contents != NULL || length == 0' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_to_data: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_file_set_contents: assertion `contents != NULL || length == 0' failed

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Motin (motin) wrote :

As your bug seem only to address the welcome message setting, I filed a new bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/195296

Feel free to mark it or this one as a duplicate if you believe it's the same bug.

Cheers

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Martin Holmes (mholmes) wrote :

Your bug has more detail, so I've marked this one as a dupe of it. Thanks!

Martin

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