Bug#241184: gdm: List of Available Sessions Lost on Upgrade

[Lucas Barbuto]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: important
Tags: sid

Hi,

After a recent upgrade of GDM, I logged out to find an error message
explaining that the GDM daemon was running a different version to the
currently installed version of GDM and that I should restart the daemon
(that's from memory, I'm not sure how to reproduce it).  I restarted the
daemon via /etc/init.d/gdm (which I needed to do twice to get rid of the
error).  Upon restarting, GDM listed only the following sessions
available to be lauched:

    * Last
    * 1. Default System Session
    * Failsafe Gnome
    * Failsafe Xterm

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.52         Add and remove users and groups
ii  aterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.4.2-10     Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  debconf                     1.4.20       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  eterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.9.2-5      Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  fvwm [x-window-manager]     2.5.8-2      F(?) Virtual Window Manager
ii  gnome-session               2.4.2-2      The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal- 2.4.2-7      The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulato 4:3.2.1-1    KDE X terminal emulator
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                 2.0.1-11     Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-9      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                     2.6.7-1      GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.6.5-1    A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  openbox [x-window-manager]  3.1-3        Standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  rxvt [x-terminal-emulator]  1:2.6.4-6    VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
ii  twm [x-window-manager]      4.3.0-7      Tab window manager
ii  wmaker [x-window-manager]   0.80.1-8     NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
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