[Bug 69977] Unable to login after gnome-theme-manager crash

[Garyu]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I made my own theme - a copy of the Human theme, but with the
modification of using red colors rather than brown/orange. I have used
this theme without problems in Dapper, the only thing modified from the
Human theme is the color codes. When this theme was selected I was
browsing for a different set of icons in the gnome-theme-manager.

To compare the looks of different icons, I was switching back and forth
between different sets of icons. At this time, gnome-theme-manager
crashed, destroying both the top and bottom panels and changing window-
size to minimum with only the close (X) button showing. When I resized
the window of gnome-theme-manager, it had no content.

When I used Ctrl-Alt-leftarrow/rightarrow I could switch workspace and
saw that aMSN, GAIM and Evolution was still running in my other
workspace, but the panels did not exist. I tried using Ctrl-Alt-Tab to
switch to panels, but it was not possible.

To try and restore functionality, I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to
restart the X server. GDM started fine, but when the splash shows, the
system will freeze, not showing any progress.

I created a new user, and the new user can login fine, so it seems only
the theme settings are somehow destroyed for my user. Unfortunately, I
do not know where these settings are located, otherwise I would provide
them to give a hint as to what went wrong.

** Affects: control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Unable to login after gnome-theme-manager crash 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/69977