Bug#241403: gnome-session: Unable to select a background with this version

[Christian Marillat]

Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:

> Le jeu 01/04/2004 à 08:53, Christian Marillat a écrit :
>> Package: gnome-session
>> Version: 2.4.2-4
>> Severity: important
>> 
>> I'm lost my background configuration at login time this morning (a simple
>> black screen) and now I'm unable to select a picture for my background in
>> the control center.
>> 
>> Seee the screenshot attached.
>
> Is it just about the background, or is it that gnome-settings-daemon is
> not started at all?

gnome-session isn't running :

$ ps aux | grep gnome-session
marillat  7902  0.0  0.1  3616  772 pts/0    S    11:45   0:00 grep gnome-session

My .xsession-errors contains nothing. And if I launch gnome-session from
a terminal I see :

$ gnome-session
gnome-session: you're already running a session manage

Otherwise gnome-settings-daemon is running :

$ ps aux | grep gnome-settings-daemon 
marillat  1779  0.0  0.1 17884  916 ?        S    08:38   0:02 gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=22
marillat  7969  0.0  0.1  3588  780 pts/0    S    11:47   0:00 grep gnome-settings-daemon

Christian