Bug 121931 – Options menu does not work in gdm-2.13.0.7

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2006-02-06 23:15:34 UTC]

In a clean install of GDM 2.13.0.7 the Options/Select Language and Options/Select Session menu items do not work. Selecting them has no effect.


I have installed GNOME 2.13 from the official GNOME/SVN overlay on a fresh install of Gentoo Linux (~x86).


Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs digest distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms sign strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlay/gnome"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonjour browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups dbus divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif fame firefox flac foomaticdb fortran galago gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww lzo mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mono moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nomotif nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pam_console pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline spell sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wmf xml2 xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2006-02-07 01:07:42 UTC]

This seems to be only related to the GDM themes installed by default. After I changed the GDM theme to Bluecurve (from redhat-artwork) the menu options in question work.

[Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2006-02-10 09:18:04 UTC]

This is related to a new feature in >=gdm-2.13.x, that allows a single options menu rather than a series of buttons.  Only the default gdm themes use this feature at this point, so only they are affected.

Upstream bug is:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330343

For now, until a fix is found, use a theme other than circles, happygnome, and happygnome-list.  Either of the gentoo themes, for example, should be fine.

[Comment 3 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2006-02-14 07:59:38 UTC]

Fixed in gnome-base/gdm-2.13.0.8.