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** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: gdm
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
wierd behaviour when ~/.dmrc contains a buggy entry
Status in gdm:
Invalid
Status in gdm package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gdm
When ~/.dmrc contains an entry in a non-supported format (in my case, I was
testing what happens when 'Language' is set to "en_US:en", instead of
"en_US.UTF-8"), gdm doesn't let the user log into his account anymore.
Here is what happens:
1. The normal login screen appears, where the user can select his username.
Upon selecting the username, gdm tries to parse the ~/.dmrc in the user's home
directory.
2. Because of the "buggy" entry, gdm "crashes" and restarts, showing the
login screen again.
3. The user selects his username a second time. This time, the bottom part
changes and displays the comboboxes for the user to select Language, Keyboard
layout, etc,
4. On this screen, it is expected to have the Password field show up. But it
never shows. Just a Cancel button is shown.
5. What's more, the buggy .dmrc file gets copied over to
/var/cache/gdm/$USERNAME/, so, even if the user logs in via console and removes
his buggy ~/.dmrc file, gdm still has the weird behaviour,because the buggy
file is preserved in /var/cache/gdm/$USERNAME/.
Expected behaviour: just ignore any "buggy" entry in ~/.dmrc and
remove it from the file.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 4 10:03:17 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Package: gdm 2.29.6-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686
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