Bug 858690

Summary: gdm wallpaper disappears and turns solid gray
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: chyndman, rstrode
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Description Jeff Bastian 2012-09-19 12:31:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
On boot, the new Spherical Cow wallpaper(*) appears briefly, but then the entire screen turns solid gray and the user list appears.  See the attached screenshot.

* /usr/share/backgrounds/spherical-cow/default/wide/spherical-cow.png

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.5.91-1.fc18.x86_64
spherical-cow-backgrounds-single-17.91.0-2.fc18.noarch

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot Fedora 18
2. Spherical Cow wallpaper appears for a few seconds
3. wallpaper is replaced with solid gray background

Actual results:
solid gray background

Expected results:
Spherical Cow wallpaper background

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Bastian 2012-09-19 12:32:50 UTC 
Created attachment 614347 [details]
gdm screenshot
Comment 2 Jeff Bastian 2012-09-19 12:55:16 UTC 
I discovered a stale entry in my gconf db:

[root@firefly ~]# gconftool-2 --direct \
    --config-source xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
    --get /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
/usr/share/backgrounds/laughlin/default/laughlin.xml

Wow, it hasn't changed since Fedora 14?

So I updated it:

[root@firefly ~]# gconftool-2 --direct \
  --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
  --type string \
  --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename \
  /usr/share/backgrounds/spherical-cow/default/spherical-cow.xml

But no luck, it's still solid gray.
Comment 3 Chris Hyndman 2012-09-22 05:18:36 UTC 
This seems to be the new default/upstream behavior as of this version, and is therefore not a bug.  See the following Ubuntu thread for details and tweaks:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2055406

Marking as closed.  Thank you.



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