Bug#504428: gdmsetup in contradiction with gdm documentation
Pierre Frenkiel
pierre.frenkiel at laposte.net
Sun Feb 6 16:57:54 UTC 2011
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.11-4
Severity: normal
here is an extract of the doc found at the Web gnome site:
http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.20/configuration.html.en
GDM uses two configuration files: the GDM System Defaults Configuration
File (<share>/gdm/defaults.conf) and the GDM Custom Configuration File
(<etc>/gdm/custom.conf). The GDM System Defaults File contains the
=====================
default configuration choices for GDM, and should not be modified by
the user. The GDM Custom Configuration File is where users may specify
their custom configuration
and (more funny), after a fresh install of the gdm package, you get in /etc/gdm a file
named gdm.conf, which says:
# Older versions of GDM used the "gdm.conf" file for configuration. If your
# system has an old gdm.conf file on the system, it will be used instead of
# this file - so changes made to this file will not take effect. Consider
# migrating your configuration to this file and removing the gdm.conf file.
Actually, gdmsetup behaves in the following way:
- if there is a non-empty gdm.conf, it updates it, and tha changes are
taken into account by gdm, and also if I move gdm.conf to custom.conf
- if I remove gdm.conf and then run gdmsetup, it neither creates a gdm.conf
nor updates custom.conf... but the changes are also taken into account by gdm.
I was unable to locate where the changes are stored in that case.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii fvwm [x-window-manager 1:2.5.30.ds-1 F(?) Virtual Window Manager
ii fvwm-crystal [x-window 3.0.5.dfsg-5 Pretty Desktop Environment based o
ii gksu 2.0.2-5 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session [x-sessi 2.30.2-3 The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME
ii gnome-terminal [x-term 2.30.2-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii kde-window-manager [x- 4:4.4.5-7 the K window manager (KWin)
ii konsole [x-terminal-em 4:4.4.5-2 X terminal emulator
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdmx1 1:1.1.0-2 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii librsvg2-2 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii librsvg2-common 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 2:1.3-6 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window-man 1:2.30.1-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager
ii xterm [x-terminal-emul 261-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii dialog 1.1-20100428-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii gdm-themes 0.6.2 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii whiptail 0.52.11-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.7.7-11 nested X server
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.5+8 the X.Org X server
ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
Versions of packages gdm suggests:
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.30.3-5 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii pm-utils 1.3.0-3 utilities and scripts for power ma
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default'
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/gdm/gdm.conf'
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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