Hi Jon, In fedora 8, we use an animated slide show background by default. It's an xml file instead of an image file. This fails to load with the simple greeter (since it's not an image) and subsequently the greeter crashes. The attached patch addresses the crash. The slide show stuff isn't upstream yet, I believe, but when it lands, it might make sense to have the greeter use those apis, so the slide shows work from login, too. --Ray
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