Bug 692412

Summary: gdm chooser list is empty
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Jansen <jansen>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: jmccann, rstrode
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Description David Jansen 2011-03-31 09:57:28 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrade to Fedora 14, gdm only shows 'Other' on the chooser list. So recently logged in users are no longer remembered. At least, that is the case for users authenticated using LDAP.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.32.0-1.fc14.x86_64
ConsoleKit-0.4.2-3.fc14.x86_64

Clue to a solution: /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log.1 contains lines like:
** (ck-history:13469): WARNING **: Error opening /var/log/ConsoleKit/history (Permission denied)

And indeed, the problem can be solved with:
chgrp gdm /var/log/ConsoleKit/history
(file is already group readable)

However, I'm not sure if this is the proper solution. So before I apply this "fix" on all of our Fedora desktops, I'd like to know if this is an actual bug, and if opening up the permissions on /var/log/ConsoleKit/history will have nasty side effects.

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-21 15:32:20 UTC
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Comment 8 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-21 15:55:59 UTC
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