Background is grey during login

[Michał Sawicz]

When using auto-login, lightdm takes the screen and the background remains grey until the user's background is loaded.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 27 16:55:54 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110802.1)
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Could you please attach /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log after this occurs? Thanks.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Actually I can reproduce on a clean install - every time I log into a U2D session, the whole screen gets grey for a second or two.

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

It's only a split second here, but I can confirm this. This is happening with the unity-greeter and auto-login on an ubuntu-2d session.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

@Hernando, don't you get it when logging in manually? I get it either way.

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

It's happening with the GTK greeter, the Unity greeter, auto- and manual login and also with XDM, so this is rather a unity-2d issue.