On 04/12/2010 01:54 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> NoOp [2010-04-08 17:25 -0000]:
>> > So what's actually left for you on this bug?
>>
>> To get the gdm menu working :-)
>
> "gdm menu" → is that System → Administration → Login Window
> configuration program? (i. e. gdmsetup). Or the login screen itself,
> which you see when you start the computer and disabled automatic
> login?
>
> I played around with gdmsetup a bit: Switched the automatic login user
> two times, disabled automatic login in favor or timed login ("Allow 10
> seconds for other users to login"), and reenabled it again, etc. This
> all worked, so I really need very precise details about what's wrong
> here.
>
>>From what I could understand from the bug trail so far, your problem
> seems to be that custom.conf gets broken as soon as you change
> something. However, you obfuscated your custom.conf in the bug trail
> (like in comment 42) to say "<username>" instead of the actual
> username, so it's not clear to me whether it had a working one or an
> invalid one (which seemed to be the case in the meantime).
>
> So, I understand that right now you have working autologin for the
> "gg" or "ggserv" user. What do you try to to in gdmsetup (please
> describe the exact steps), how does custom.conf look before and after?
> I. e. in which steps can you reproduce the broken custom.conf?
>
> Martin
>
I'm not sure what exactly you aren't understanding; I'v described the
exact steps multiple times & tested using multiple scenarios and logins.
In the simplest terms, the symptoms are exactly as Chris Thompson has
described.
So as to remove any confusion regarding multiple users on the system
I've deleted/removed *all* users with the exception of 'gg'. Set
autologin to off (prompt for username at gdm startup), and the symptoms
are exactly as prevously described by me and the others on this report.
In order to get to the desktop I then have to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a
console, 'sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf' and change it back to
'AutomaticLoginEnable=true', 'sudo stop gdm', 'sudo start gdm'. That
gets you to the desktop, then go back to the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1),
logout of the console '$ exit', and use Ctrl-Alt-F8 to get back to the
desktop.
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