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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) wrote : Re: [hardy] gdmsetup won't let me change the login screen

Pedro: It's a fresh Hardy beta install, all updates applied. I've applied the following updates since my last post (from Synaptic's history):

Commit Log for Thu Mar 27 13:46:03 2008

Upgraded the following packages:
gnome-utils (2.20.0.1-1ubuntu2) to 2.20.0.1-1ubuntu3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (0.10.7-2) to 0.10.7-3
hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu4) to 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu5
initscripts (2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu41) to 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu42
libhal-storage1 (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu4) to 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu5
libhal1 (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu4) to 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu5
libpolkit-dbus2 (0.7-2ubuntu4) to 0.7-2ubuntu5
libpolkit-grant2 (0.7-2ubuntu4) to 0.7-2ubuntu5
libpolkit2 (0.7-2ubuntu4) to 0.7-2ubuntu5
libusplash0 (0.5.16) to 0.5.17
locales (2.7.9-3) to 2.7.9-4
network-manager-gnome (0.6.6-0ubuntu1) to 0.6.6-0ubuntu2
policykit (0.7-2ubuntu4) to 0.7-2ubuntu5
sysv-rc (2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu41) to 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu42
sysvutils (2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu41) to 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu42
usplash (0.5.16) to 0.5.17

Now, as Pjotr12345 reported (considering the updates applied), gdmsetup is now shown when loaded, but I still get the "No such file..." message several times.

snifer@snifer-laptop:~$ sudo updatedb
snifer@snifer-laptop:~$ locate gdmsetup.glade
/usr/share/gdm/gdmsetup.glade

I think I found the problem: gdmsetup looks for .gtk-bookmarks in your home directory, but, since it's loaded as root, it looks for the file in /root and it doesn't exists there. To the people with this problem, please try to copying this file from your home directory to /root to confirm that this is the problem and report your results. Now gdmsetup should load without the "No such file..." messages, or at least it did for me.