Bug#603510: gdm3: reload initscript action doesn't properly reload configuration

[Kjö Hansi Glaz]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:09:55AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 21 novembre 2010 à 01:23 +0100, Kjö Hansi Glaz a écrit : 
> > > Starting from 5) I can’t reproduce your bug. Only the faulty setting is
> > > not applied.
> > > 
> > I tried again and was able to reproduce it. After `invoke-rc.d gdm
> > reload`:
> > - the next connexion to gdm the settings was applied OK
> > - all the following connections, no settings from
> >   /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults was applied
> 
> Could you please explain what makes you think that no settings are
> applied? Which settings exactly are not applied?
> 
- I see the default background instead of the one I set;
- the user list is displayed despite I disabled it;
- I see the power management icon in GDM

> > > There shouldn’t be anything different than with invoke-rc.d.
> > > 
> > I fixed the problem introduced by the test invoking dpkg-reconfigure and
> > it worked again.
> 
> The only thing that could cause it is a permission issue. Is your umask
> set to a special value?
> 
Yes, 027