Bug#259760: gnome-session: Impatiently kills programs too soon after launching them

[Kevin McCarty]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.6.2-3
Severity: normal

Since a recent upgrade to gnome-session, I experienced a problem wherein
clicking the gnome-terminal button on my panel would launch a terminal
window which would then immediately exit.  Clicking a second time
succeeded.

This behavior has been fixed by creating a ~/.gnomerc with the following
contents:

	exec /usr/bin/gnome-session --purge-delay=0

I assume the reason is that the first terminal window requires a
gnome-terminal-factory to start up before being created, whereas the second
window already has a gnome-terminal-factory to work from, so appears
faster.

In addition, the README.gz of the openoffice.org package states:

	If you experience OpenOffice.org startup problems (most notably
	while using Gnome) please 'unset' the SESSION_MANAGER environment
	variable inside the shell you use to start OpenOffice.org. This can
	be done by adding the line "unset SESSION_MANAGER" to the beginning
	of the soffice shell script found in the "[office folder]/program"
	directory.

This problem is also fixed by the same .gnomerc file, as noted in
discussion on the OpenOffice bug tracking system here:

	http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4494

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  desktop-base              0.3.14         common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-4        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                   0.2.29-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.2-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.2-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1-8        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.3-3        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.0-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-1       GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxrandr2                4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1               0.8.3-7        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

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regards,

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Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/    Princeton University
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