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

[Josselin Mouette]

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Le jeu 01/04/2004 =E0 02:33, Thomas Bushnell BSG a =E9crit :
> Package: gnome-session
> Version: 2.4.2-4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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 have investigated on my unstable setup, and this may be related to
#241403, as solving it also solved this bug. Please try the following:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnome2-common.postinst configure
and tell me whether it improves things.

Regards,
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