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** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: gdm
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  wierd behaviour when ~/.dmrc contains a buggy entry

Status in gdm:
  Invalid
Status in gdm package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gdm

  When ~/.dmrc contains an entry in a non-supported format (in my case, I was testing what happens when 'Language' is set to "en_US:en", instead of "en_US.UTF-8"), gdm doesn't let the user log into his account anymore.
  Here is what happens:
  1. The normal login screen appears, where the user can select his username. Upon selecting the username, gdm tries to parse the ~/.dmrc in the user's home directory.
  2. Because of the "buggy" entry, gdm "crashes" and restarts, showing the login screen again.
  3. The user selects his username a second time. This time, the bottom part changes and displays the comboboxes for the user to select Language, Keyboard layout, etc,
  4. On this screen, it is expected to have the Password field show up. But it never shows. Just a Cancel button is shown.
  5. What's more, the buggy .dmrc file gets copied over to /var/cache/gdm/$USERNAME/, so, even if the user logs in via console and removes his buggy ~/.dmrc file, gdm still has the weird behaviour,because the buggy file is preserved in /var/cache/gdm/$USERNAME/.

  Expected behaviour: just ignore any "buggy" entry in ~/.dmrc and
  remove it from the file.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Mar  4 10:03:17 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  Package: gdm 2.29.6-0ubuntu4
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
  SourcePackage: gdm
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686

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