Ubuntu
gdm package

Face pictures not appearing correctly at Login screen

Bug #479671 reported by jad
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

In Ubuntu 9.04 I added .face pictures for all users in my family by creating png images in each users 'Pictures' folders and linking them with "ln -s Pictures/MyPicture.png .face" so that they were relative links.

In Ubuntu 9.10 these files were copied to /var/cache/gdm/<user>/face ... and because they were relative links the pictures never appeared, because these were broken links they also appeared to not be able to be replaced when i changed my .face picture properly (I believe it tried to copy the picture to the location of the broken link and failed, but this may be a fallacy)

On removing the broken links from /var/cache/gdm/*/face and logging in as each user and out again their cache images were updated properly and are now working.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 9 23:55:55 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

Revision history for this message
jad (t12nslookup) wrote :
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GDM is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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