Re: [gdm-list] GDM Question

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

John:

> I appreciate all of your responses, I changed the default them to
> happy-gnome with browser
> and when I logged out and the xserver restarted it came back up with
> the fedora infinity theme.

That sounds odd.  I don't see this problem.  Try running this
command:

gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE".

Does it respond with a file gdm.conf or custom.conf.  gdmsetup
should modify this file with the new value, which should get
honored by GDM.  Does the file specified have the choice you
select?  Or is gdmsetup failing to actually save the updated
setting to the file?

> I then hit the F10 key and it allowed me to choose the xdmcp option
> but it came back to the
> local machine.

This sounds like the bug that is fixed in 2.20.2.

> I then logged in again and ran gdmsetup, as the root user, and the
> fedora infinity them was
> again selected.
>
> While running gdmsetup from the cl I received lots of these in the background:
>
> gdmsetup[27347]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_set_string: assertion
> `key_file != NULL' failed
> gdmsetup[27347]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_to_data: assertion
> `key_file != NULL' failed
> gdmsetup[27347]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_file_set_contents: assertion
> `contents != NULL || length == 0' failed
> gdmsetup[27347]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion `key_file
> != NULL' failed
>
> I have no clue what is wrong.

You might try deleting the custom configuration file that is
reported when you run gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE",
create an empty file with this name, and rerun gdmsetup and recreate
your configuration customizations.  This should fix the problem if
there is any corruption in your configuration file that might be
causing this sort of issue.

Brian