Bug#241361: gnome-session: recent upgrade hoses login with sawfish

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.4.2-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Recent upgrade to gnome-session hoses my login, apparently because of
the switch to making metacity the default wm.  When I log in the
failsafe session, the session starts fine, using metacity as the
window manager.

But when I log in with my normal session (which calls for sawfish), I
get a hang after the sawfish pager starts.  ps shows that the session
manager has exited in that state, and only the sawfish pager is
running; nothing else from my startup.  

I'm happy to switch to metacity (assuming it doesn't fail completely
the way it did back when I first tried it), but I can't even log in on
my normal session, and afaict the session manager only lets me edit
the current session.

My .xsession-errors file contains the following after th

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "tb"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
File error: Broken pipe, #<process running: /usr/lib/sawfish-pager/pager>

Thomas




-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-ben10
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  desktop-base                0.3.11       common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-3     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-3      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.3-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                     0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-9      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-10   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.3-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2.1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                     2.6.7-1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                     4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxrandr2                  4.3.0-7      X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1                 0.8.3-7      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                      4.3.0-7      X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

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