Bug 1071614 - sometimes gdm does not display user names
Summary: sometimes gdm does not display user names
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-03-02 10:46 UTC by cornel panceac
Modified: 2015-06-29 19:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-06-29 19:12:21 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
picture of empty gdm (368.02 KB, image/jpeg)
2014-03-02 10:46 UTC, cornel panceac
no flags Details
search for 'term' (1004.00 KB, image/png)
2014-03-02 10:46 UTC, cornel panceac
no flags Details
alt-f2 search (198.34 KB, image/png)
2014-03-02 10:48 UTC, cornel panceac
no flags Details

Description cornel panceac 2014-03-02 10:46:02 UTC
Created attachment 869594 [details]
picture of empty gdm

Description of problem:
some times does not display user names, diplaying just icons instead. hence, you can not know which is the right user to select. i have seen this on my bth home desktops, one with i3 processor (intel graphics), the other with an external ATI graphics card.

some other times, it displays only two of the four users present on the system.
After seeing this last effect, upon entering gnome-shell the "search" display is mangled. This i've noticed only on the i3 system, but at the time i did not payed much attention on the system with ATI.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -q gdm
gdm-3.10.0.1-1.fc20.i686


How reproducible:
sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
apparently this started after my LAN router (tp-link wdr4300) started to malfunction (thus interrupting DNS resolving), but this may be a coincidence. also, we may have three bugs here, not just one.

Comment 1 cornel panceac 2014-03-02 10:46:42 UTC
Created attachment 869595 [details]
search for 'term'

Comment 2 cornel panceac 2014-03-02 10:47:25 UTC
forgot to say that /home/user is mounted from NFS.

Comment 3 cornel panceac 2014-03-02 10:48:15 UTC
Created attachment 869596 [details]
alt-f2 search

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