ampersand in user real name freezes login screen

[Mark]

Binary package hint: gdm

Created original user in UNR 9.10 with username administrator and real name "Someone & Someone else".

The login screen is expected to show the real name "Someone & Someone else". Instead, the login screen confusingly shows the real name as "Others..." initially (tooltip is "Log in as administrator"), then on mouseout the real name changes to "(null)". There is still another option on the login screen that is also labelled "Others...".

I created subsequent users but they failed to even be listed on the login screen after the incorrectly labelled "Others..." option.

Installed UNR 9.10 on two netbooks and problem occurred on both. Suspected the ampersand in real name was the culprit, and removing this character proved to be a successful workaround for all above login screen issues.

All updates have been applied to UNR 9.10 installation.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Mark (mark-ubuntu-fiftyoclock)]

logged at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616584

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

sru team, the debdiff for the stable update which has been uploaded is on bug #403441

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Accepted gdm into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've managed to reproduce the bug with the gdm version on Lucid and i can confirm that the package on the proposed repository fixes the issue, marking this as verification done, thanks all.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the maverick version will be fixed when 2.30.3 is uploaded in the next days

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdm - 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu2

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gdm (2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/94_git_null_free_crash.patch:
    - git change to fix a crasher (lp: #403441)
  * debian/patches/95_git_name_escaping.patch:
    - git change to fix escaping issues leading to crashes (lp: #499690),
      or to having incorrect usernames displayed (lp: #585128)

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/patches/30_don_t_save_failsafe_session.patch: (LP: #542345)
    - return FALSE instead of exiting on .desktop file without a comment
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:41:17 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdm - 2.30.2.is.2.30.2-0ubuntu1

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gdm (2.30.2.is.2.30.2-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Tweak the version number to be newer than the lucid-updates one
  * debian/patches/94_git_null_free_crash.patch:
    - git change to fix a crasher (lp: #403441)
  * debian/patches/95_git_name_escaping.patch:
    - git change to fix escaping issues leading to crashes (lp: #499690),
      or to having incorrect usernames displayed (lp: #585128)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:36:48 +0200