Fwd: Re: Gnome Session Problems

[Sébastien Cérèze]

Sebastien,

Here's some more info on this problem and a temporary
workaround.  Would
you please
post it for me?  Thanks.

Carl Powers <powers at copper.net /
powers at trac.wsmr.army.mil
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------------------------------------- The problem
seems to be with gdm as
 well as possibly gnome-session.  I first
encountered it when I upgraded to gdm-2.4.4.0 with
gnome-2.2.  In that case,
gnome-session lasted less than 10 seconds and died,
returning me
automatically
to the gui login.  It did not display any error
messages, etc.  I could
still log in
using the failsafe-gnome, same as now.  In that case,
I reverted to
gdm-2.4.1.5
and things worked normally.

I wasn't able to revert to gdm-2.4.1.5 using
gnome-2.4, but I did have
the cache
copy available.  So, I lrm'd gdm, cd'd to /, and
untarred the
gdm-2.4.1.5 cache
copy.  After fixing the ownership and permissions of
/var/gdm, I can now log
in to a full gnome-2.4 session.  There is just one
error message on the
gui login
concerning an invalid line in the config file which I
haven't addressed
but it doesn't
keep me from logging in or gnome-2.4 from running.  Of
course, doing it
this way
Lunar doesn't know that gdm is installed, but at least
it works.

Hope this helps.

Carl Powers

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