Bug 196549 – >=gnome-base/gdm-2.20 - user list is blank

• Status: VERIFIED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Balint Dobai-Pataky 2007-10-20 20:02:33 UTC]

the list did not even appear in gdm - no matter what settings i applied.
now in 2.20.1 the list appears, but no user is in it. - i have explicitly set some users to appear in the list.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-20 20:07:16 UTC]

gdm != games (yet :P)

[Comment 2 Balint Dobai-Pataky 2007-10-20 20:14:04 UTC]

sorry :-D

i see this in my messages log:
gdm[8490]: pam_nologin(gdm:auth): cannot determine username

[Comment 3 Marc Geerlings 2007-10-21 10:52:10 UTC]

Same problem on also a amd64

[Comment 4 Víctor Enríquez 2007-10-22 00:25:14 UTC]

Same problem here too, I can't see the user list, the "faces" of the users are gone,using gdm-2.20.1, it doesn't seem related to any theme or setting.

[Comment 5 Víctor Enríquez 2007-10-24 16:39:18 UTC]

I can see the list, if I put the option Browser=true in the file /usr/share/gdm/default.conf, I think this is not a bug, it's only disabled.
Maybe you can put a message at the end of the ebuild, saying how to enable the Browser.

[Comment 6 Balint Dobai-Pataky 2007-10-24 16:59:57 UTC]

if i enter the Browser=true in the custom.conf i see the listbox, but nothing in it

[Comment 7 Balint Dobai-Pataky 2007-10-24 19:54:56 UTC]

i tested it yesterday, and didn't work
now it does. i mean if i add the Browser=true setting, so it's cool than,
sorry

[Comment 8 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2007-11-18 11:55:55 UTC]

*** Bug 197269 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2007-11-22 00:02:39 UTC]

I have the same problem, maybe this bug should be reopened

[Comment 10 Fabio Bonfante 2007-11-23 01:30:50 UTC]

same problem, solved editing (i think better place)
/etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf
(it overrides /usr/share/gdm/default.conf)
---------------------
[greeter]
Browser=true
---------------------

Anyway looking at the comments in default.conf seems that the "browser component" had to be showed (by gdm obviously) with themes using it... are we really sure that it's not an upstream "bug" or a not well documented behavior's change?

[Comment 11 Pacho Ramos 2007-11-23 08:46:09 UTC]

The problem is fixed adding "Browser=true"m but this line should be added by gdmsetup when needed :-/

[Comment 12 Pacho Ramos 2007-11-23 08:46:45 UTC]

(In reply to comment #11)
> The problem is fixed adding "Browser=true"m but this line should be added by
> gdmsetup when needed :-/
> 

when needed :-/ -> when user configures gdm for showing users list

[Comment 13 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-01-16 22:23:40 UTC]

In order to make it clear for everybody, I hit this on a 2.16 -> 2.20 transition. The solution is simply to check the damn checkbox in gdm. Do not trust the preview of the gdm theme, there is now a checkbox to activate the user list on themes supporting it and it is disable by default. Thanks for your attention.

[Comment 14 Olexandr Shalakhin 2008-09-07 13:10:56 UTC]

(In reply to comment #13)
> In order to make it clear for everybody, I hit this on a 2.16 -> 2.20
> transition. The solution is simply to check the damn checkbox in gdm. Do not
> trust the preview of the gdm theme, there is now a checkbox to activate the
> user list on themes supporting it and it is disable by default. Thanks for your
> attention.
> 

Does it means that gdm would not support user list? I have changed 
[greeter]
Browser=true
at /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf and /usr/share/gdm/default.conf. As the result user lists are still empty :'(

[Comment 15 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-07 15:36:26 UTC]

Simply open "gdmsetup" and go to "Local" tab, then, use "Style:" for configuring it

This should work

[Comment 16 Olexandr Shalakhin 2008-09-08 16:44:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #15)
> Simply open "gdmsetup" and go to "Local" tab, then, use "Style:" for
> configuring it
> 
> This should work
> 

Thanks :)