I just updated to Rocky Linux 9.8 and my login banners have disappeared. I also had the user list disabled and now users are being listed on the login screen. All my dconf settings files still exist with the same permissions but it’s like they’re not being used any more. Anyone else running into …

[image] brokenear999: All my dconf settings files Can you clarify more about these “files”. Are they files that you created yourself and then added to some directory? If so, where, and do these files contain xml schema? Do the ghost settings still show up in dconf editor?

I can confirm the mentioned behaviour. Local config files are placed under /etc/dconf/db/local.d

BTW, on RHEL9.8 all local dconf settings are taken into account.

[image] Ritov: /etc/dconf/db/local.d I have had (up to 9.7): - name: 'Set dconf use keyfile backend (for homes on NFS)' ansible.builtin.lineinfile: path: /etc/dconf/profile/user regexp: '^service-db' line: 'service-db:keyfile/user' insertbefore: …

Are we saying this is Rocky specific, does not happen on RHEL?

Can confirm removal of flatpak packages fixed the issue for me. Thanks all.

Ticket @ https://bugs.rockylinux.org/view.php?id=12904

Dconf settings on Rocky 9.8

Rocky Linux Help & Support

Ritov May 31, 2026, 6:03pm 7

There exists an conflict with flatpak. Removing

flatpak-selinux
flatpak
flatpak-libs

restores gdm’s ability to apply custom configuration.

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Dconf settings on Rocky 9.8

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