Bug#242507: gdm: no execution of gnomerc or other personal rc files

[Wouter Van Hemel]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: normal

Since the last gdm upgrade, .gnomerc (and others) do not get executed. 
That's particulary bad since I set my (partial) locale in those startup 
files. Has the gnomerc/xinitrc approach been declared deprecated, or is 
the current gdm package in a temporary state of flux?

(This might be related to other bug reports about session management.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE@euro

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.52         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                     1.4.21       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.20      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  enlightenment [x-window-man 1:0.16.6-1   The Enlightenment Window Manager
ii  gnome-session               2.4.2-4      The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal- 2.4.2-7      The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-3     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.3-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 2.0.1-12     Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-10     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-10   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgsf-1                    1.8.2-6      Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.3-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-16      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-16      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-16      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2.1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                  2.5.0-2      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0                    7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                     2.6.8-1      GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.6.5-1    A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  twm [x-window-manager]      4.3.0-7      Tab window manager
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 4.3.0-7      X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm