Bug#241390: (no subject)

Morin Morin <morin@cs.unm.edu>, 241390@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:30:00 -0700 (MST)


Unfortunately it does not seem to work that way.

I was faced with "Your preferred session type GDM_Failsafe.GNOME. desktop
is not installed on this machine.  Do you wish to make GNOME the default
for future sessions.  Just Log In OR Make Default"

I choose the "Make Default" but then was back with a default GNOME and no
fvwm.

Subsequently, I unloaded gdm from my system and now run "startx"
manually, but still do not get fvwm from my .xsession file.

Please advise.  Thanks,

-- M. Morin



On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le jeu 01/04/2004 =E0 06:30, Morin a =E9crit :
> > Package: gnome-session
> > Version: 2.4.2-2
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> > My .xsession file which calls for fvwm is no longer being executed
> > properly.  This happens immediately after logging in.  Nothing shows up=
 in
> > .xsession-errors, but there are numerous errors as it trys to put me in=
to
> > some sort of default/failsafe gnome session.
>
> This is because of the GDM update, and has nothing to do with
> gnome-session. If you select the "default" session instead of the GNOME
> failsafe in GDM, it will read your .xsession file properly.
>
> Can you please confirm?
> --
>  .''`.           Josselin Mouette        /\./\
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