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 ... -- [Gutsy] gdmsetup does not use or remember a user-supplied welcome message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159789 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
