new theme not applied

[Pavel Rojtberg]

Binary package hint: gdm

the gdm theme did not change after the updates which were supposed to push the lucid arwork. the background is still brown and the theme defaults to Raleigh (as I removed Human I guess).
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/interface
still shows
 gtk-theme = HumanLogin

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 5 14:58:00 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gdm 2.29.6-0ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686

[Chris Johnston (cjohnston)]

Mine were both changed without any interaction by me after a few updates.. Can you check for new updates again and see if there is anything new?

[Pavel Rojtberg (rojtberg)]

updates make no difference. on my desktop PC the transition worked also flawlessly and that should have the same level of updates. I guess there is something funny going on with my laptop configuration...

[Pavel Rojtberg (rojtberg)]

rm -rf /var/lib/gdm helped. Not sure whether this is a correct fix...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

did you ever manually changed the theme before?

[Pavel Rojtberg (rojtberg)]

I think I manually set the theme to human before it was officially applied in the karmic cycle..

[Cyberkilla (cyberkilla04uk-deactivatedaccount)]

Pavel Rojtberg: I'm having the exact same problem and I think I manually set the Karmic theme in the Beta before it was added officially.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not a bug then the user changes are not overwritten on upgrade only the default change

[Stephan Peijnik (speijnik)]

I am having the same problem. The new theme was not applied, and I believe I also changed the theme manually. As gdm-setup does not allow changing the theme anymore, what is the "correct" way of solving this issue, apart from deleting /var/lib/gdm?

[Stephan Peijnik (speijnik)]

After a short test deleting /var/lib/gdm does nothing but cause problems. However, getting rid of /var/lib/gdm/.gconf seems to solve the problem for me.

[PrivateUser132781 (privateuser132781-deactivatedaccount)]

I have the same problem (still the brown Karmic GDM theme). No customisations were made. I am therefore changing status of this bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

letting this bug as it is, the gdm package doesn't install a .gconf config and it's not a gdm package issue but playing changing the bug status back is of not use there

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

I too can confirm this, but I did not change the gdm theme in karmic. I did make gconf adjustments however (to disable sound).

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

I also did not change the gdm theme in karmic. After my initial upgrade from karmic -> lucid on 2010-03-05, gdm had switched over to the new theme. At some point shortly thereafter, a dist-upgrade reverted that change and I was left with the karmic gdm theme.

[Claudio Viano (claudio-viano)]

I haven't toched gdm ever in my life and after dist-upgrade I still had the karmic gdm theme. After some more days of updates I was left with the karmic wallpaper and the greater with no theme, just basic gtk. I removed /var/lib/gdm then marked gdm for reinstall in synaptic and the problem is solved.

[Colin (dentarthurdent)]

thanks Claudio, that worked for me!

if others have this issue, i ran the command

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gdm

then reinstalled gdm via synaptic

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

Removing /var/lib/gdm/.gconf worked great for me

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

I and a few of my co-workers encountered this despite never having touched the gdm configuration before.

[k3nt-1 (dugauthier)]

Hello,

Indeed, the advice of Claudio did work for me too:
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gdm && sudo aptitude reinstall gdm

Just reinstalling (without suppression of /var/lib/gdm) did not work.
/var/lib/gdm was empty on my computer before I deleted it and it still empty after reinstallation.

I did not change the default gdm config in Karmic and this did not prevented me from getting this bug.
I run on AMD 64 bits and did not get this problem on my other laptop (intel 32 bits).

If more info is required, just let me know.

[Reed Lipman (rmlipman)]

I didn't even realize my login screen was wrong until today. k3nt's advice (sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gdm && sudo aptitude reinstall gdm) worked for me.