Bug#241403: gnome-session: Unable to select a background with
this version
Christian Marillat
Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>, 241403@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:09:24 +0200
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