I can confirm this bug. However it is not restricted to the welcome message in my case: Nothing I change in gdmsetup gets saved at all. When running from the terminal, these errors come up frequently:
gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_to_data: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_file_set_contents: assertion `contents != NULL || length == 0' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_to_data: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_file_set_contents: assertion `contents != NULL || length == 0' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_set_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_to_data: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed gdmsetup[7909]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_file_set_contents: assertion `contents != NULL || length == 0' failed ... -- [Gutsy] gdmsetup does not use or remember a user-supplied welcome message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159789 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
