Comment 3 for bug 536712

No worries - I am just cross-posting to the forums and this bug for the moment. :)

Here is what I put in the forums in response to your statement that it freezes the system when you ran the command suggested:

Well that is very starnge indeed. The command I gave above if typed correctly, should not freeze the machine or do anything hinky at all. This definitely indicates a deeper issue underlying the login screen not changing.

I am not ready to give up on this just yet though. I wonder if you could check to see if (immediately after issuing the command I gave in the earlier post to set the value) you then run the command to check the value and see if it was indeed changed. Or is it completely impossible to run 'gconftool-2' as the user 'gdm'?

Maybe we should also see if you can even run a basic command as 'gdm' and see if that freezes the system all by itself? i.e. like: 'sudo -u gdm ls'