Environment passed to /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default script does not contain useful information
Bug #506972 reported by
Manuel Iglesias Alonso
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm |
Fix Released
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High
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gdm (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gdm
Bug described in:
https:/
Patch supplied by gdm developers (See bugzilla.gnome bug above).
Request Ubuntu applies patch to relevant distributions (I.E.: Ubuntu.10 Karmic)
Please read following comment. https:/
Thanks in advance,
Best regards,
Manolo.
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in gdm: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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Hi, this bug affects me too in Karmic (and 18 PCs in our school's computer lab, which I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10). Fix for Lucid is in bug #463376, but is not backported to Karmic.
Oh, the bug is about GDM's /etc/gdm/ PostLogin/ Default script where you no longer get the user name that's login in through any of $USER, $USERNAME or $LOGNAME (they all now contain "gdm"). It worked before Karmic, but not with new GDM 2.28.x.
Bug https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/gdm/ +bug/463376 seems to have resolved the issue for Lucid, but the fix is still not in Karmic.
Please could you backport the fix in bug 463376 from Lucid to Karmic? This way us poor school sysadmins could stop pulling out our hair because of this :-)
Many people rely on these vars set properly to perform tasks like "cleaning" the student's home directory at login and setting predefined defaults for the desktop.