[Bug 66000] Re: Random themed gdm bug

[Ruudiculus]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:41 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le jeudi 19 octobre 2006 à 14:31 +0000, Ruudiculus a écrit :
> 
> > 	"There was an error loading the theme circles" (Can't open
> > file /usr/share/gdm/themes/circles/circles.xml)
> > 	"There was an error loading the theme, and the default theme could not
> > be loaded. Attempting to start the standard greeter"
> > 
> > I checked and cicrles is not among the themes present in that directory,
> > so this error is correct.
>
> The dapper and edgy gdm packages ship that file, did you install gdm
> from somewhere else? You might want to reinstall it
OK, good to know!
> 
> 
> > However, when the plain GDM is supposed to make the username field
> > writable after the occurence of an error (regarding the abcense of any
> > themed greeter, random or not), THERE IS a bug because it doesn't do
> > this.
> 
> Right, that happens on dapper. It works fine on edgy so it has probably
> been fixed by a gdm new version. Marking as fixed according to that. The
> fix is not likely to be backported to dapper, that's a corner case when
> a broken theme is listed and easy to fix
OK, good to know too :-) It is not that it was a life-threatning bug,
but it is good that it's fixed now!

Thanks!
Ruud
> 
> 
> ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Medium
>        Status: Needs Info => Fix Released
>

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Random themed gdm bug
https://launchpad.net/bugs/66000