** Changed in: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
** Changed in: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
Status: New => Confirmed
** Description changed:
To reproduce on a fresh install of ubuntu mate 16.04 start lightdm-gtk-
greeter-settings and authenticate to start editing lightdm settings.
Please do not try to reproduce this on a production machine as it will
- involve locking yourself out of lightdm. In the settings for lightdm
- GTK+ greeter settings select a really large image from a digial camera
- or high resolution screenshot as your user image that is larger than
- your screen resolution hit save and then log out. You will be taken to a
- lightdm screen that has a user image so large you cannot login.
+ involve locking yourself out of lightdm.
+
+ In the settings for lightdm GTK+ greeter settings select a really large
+ image from a digial camera or high resolution screenshot as your user
+ image that is larger than your screen resolution hit save and then log
+ out.
+
+ You will be taken to a lightdm screen that has a user image so large you
+ cannot login.
Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Release: 16.04
lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings:
- Installed: 1.2.0-0ubuntu1
- Candidate: 1.2.0-0ubuntu1
- Version table:
- *** 1.2.0-0ubuntu1 0
- 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial/universe amd64
Packages
- 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+ Installed: 1.2.0-0ubuntu1
+ Candidate: 1.2.0-0ubuntu1
+ Version table:
+ *** 1.2.0-0ubuntu1 0
+ 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial/universe amd64
Packages
+ 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+ I would expect the greeter to check that it would not set such
+ redicolous file sizes that block the user from logging in or at least
+ provide a warning dialog that this could make you unable to login
+ similar to things that cause data loss on a partition in ubuquity or
+ gparted.
- I would expect the greeter to check that it would not set such redicolous
file sizes that block the user from logging in or at least provide a warning
dialog that this could make you unable to login similar to things that cause
data loss on a partition in ubuquity or gparted. As this prevents even loggin
into guest session graphically. I did manage to get back in editing
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf by hand with vim.
+ As this prevents even loggin into guest session graphically. I did
+ manage to get back in editing /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf by
+ hand with vim.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings 1.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Nov 3 22:51:13 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-03 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64
(20151103)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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