Bug 82545
| Summary: | gdm upgrade resets settings | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Warren Togami <wtogami> |
| Component: | gdm | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | phoebe | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-01-23 15:06:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I'm almost sure we went through this for 8.0 betas - changing it to noreplace, observing that stuff broke, and changing it back. The problem is that if you don't upgrade the config you often don't get bugfixes. There's just an inherit tradeoff: replace and get people bugfixes but make them manually restore their local mods, or don't replace and don't get out the bugfixes. There is no correct answer, both ways have a major downside... I think it's best to just pick one and stick to it. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115 Description of problem: Upgrading the "gdm" package seems to reset the settings to default. This can potentially cause confusion when upgrading "gdm" for LTSP servers, because XDMCP becomes disabled. I noticed this behavior when upgrading between the following packages, so I suspect this is generally the case with gdm packaging. gdm-2.4.0.7-14.i386.rpm to gdm-2.4.1.0-1.i386.rpm gdm-2.4.1.0-1.i386.rpm to gdm-2.4.1.1-1.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set gdm settings, like XDMCP. 2. Upgrade gdm. Actual Results: Settings are reset to default. Expected Results: Settings should be kept.