Comment 21 for bug 986967

Michael,
Your unity-greeter patch didn't solve the problem for me. I am not able to log in at all at the moment. In my case, as well as turning off the login sound with Ubuntu Tweak, I set the 'use the current desktop as background' option (boy do I regret that now!). Relevant section of my x-0-greeter.log is:

    [+0.80s] DEBUG: background.vala:116: Render of background /usr/share/backgrounds/Early_Blossom_by_Dh0r.jpg complete
    [+0.87s] DEBUG: background.vala:67: Making background /home/ian/Dropbox/computer-setup/backgrounds/P1040013.jpg at 1920x1200
    [+0.90s] DEBUG: background.vala:144: Error loading background: Failed to open file '/home/ian/Dropbox/computer-setup/backgrounds/P1040013.jpg': Permission denied
    [+0.91s] DEBUG: background.vala:116: Render of background /home/ian/Dropbox/computer-setup/backgrounds/P1040013.jpg complete
    [+0.91s] CRITICAL: background_loader_create_pattern: assertion `image != NULL' failed
    [+1.05s] DEBUG: Setting keyboard layout to 'gb'
    [+1.34s] DEBUG: indicator-sound: new_volume_slider_widget
    [+1.35s] DEBUG: indicator-sound: new_voip_slider_widget
    [+16.53s] DEBUG: Providing response to display manager
    [+16.53s] DEBUG: Wrote 30 bytes to daemon
    [+16.55s] DEBUG: Read 8 bytes from daemon
    [+16.55s] DEBUG: Read 15 bytes from daemon
    [+16.55s] DEBUG: Authentication complete for user ian with return code 0
    [+16.55s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:438: MIKE: login complete
    [+16.55s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:441: MIKE: not test mode; alpha is 0.001312
    [+16.55s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:447: MIKE: waiting on alpha

If I knew which config file the background was specified in, I'd try resetting it to the default. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ian