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 11:47, Christian Marillat a écrit :
>> > Is it just about the background, or is it that gnome-settings-daemon is
>> > not started at all?
>> 
[...]

>> $ 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
>
> Hm. Are you sure you are running the GNOME session and not the GNOME
> failsafe session? There are currently issues with GDM that can sometimes
> lead to running the failsafe session until you manually select GNOME
> again.

Yes, this was working when I've upgraded gdm, and this doesn't work
since I've upgraded gnome-session yesterday.

> You can try ps aux|grep ssh-agent to see which session was launched, it
> should appear in the ssh-agent command line.

$ ps aux | grep ssh-agent    
marillat 10933  0.0  0.1  2996  884 ?        S    14:05   0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/gnome-session
marillat 11085  0.0  0.1  3616  772 pts/12   S    14:08   0:00 grep ssh-agent

> Otherwise, gnome-session may have died, is there a core file around?

No, and I've never seen that before.

Christian