assertion `key_file != NULL' failed

[Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín]

Found in gutsy, gdm version: 2.19.3-0ubuntu1.
Every time I boot, I get the following in my daemon.log:

Jun 18 22:24:04 snifer-laptop gdm[5177]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_get_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
Jun 18 22:24:04 snifer-laptop gdm[5177]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_get_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
Jun 18 22:24:04 snifer-laptop gdm[5177]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451989

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

a temporary fix is to create a empty text file named .dmrc inside your home folder with just one line ( edit the file and type 'Enter' one time, and save. )

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gdm (2.20.0-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_create_config_when_required.patch:
    - patch from SVN, create configuration file when required (LP: #121119)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:48:20 +0200

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

I confirm that the update fixed the problem.

[Diego (panda84)]

Could it be only partially fixed?

A friend of mine experienced it also in Hardy.

Look at lines 393, 394 and 395 of the attached syslog.

[Diego (panda84)]

By the way he reports that the mouse is not recognized or, al least, the cursors doesn't move. Could it be related? Should I file a new separate bug report?

In case you need it to evaluate if there could be a correlation here you are the Xorg log.

[Diego (panda84)]

Uh... sorry. I just found this line:
"PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp"
so the mouse problem has probably nothing to do with the Glib-CRITICAL. Sorry for the involuntary spam; you can remove this and my previous comment if you want.