Bug#237615: gdm: Failsafe Gnome session works properly

[Angel Herranz Nieva]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #237615

Whilst in the Default session just a X blank screen is what you get,
Failsafe Gnome session works properly.  Likely, the problem is in any
startup script.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (998, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.52                Add and remove users and groups
ii  afterstep [x-window- 1.8.11-12           A window manager with the NEXTSTEP
ii  debconf              1.4.20              Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                 1.10.20             Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  eterm [x-terminal-em 0.9.2-5             Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  gnome-session        2.4.2-1             The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.4.2-7             The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal- 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  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  libwrap0             7.6-ipv6.1-3        Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libxml2              2.6.7-1             GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-m 1:2.6.5-1           A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20031104-4 A window manager for X11
ii  twm [x-window-manage 4.3.0-7             Tab window manager
ii  wmaker [x-window-man 0.80.1-8            NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii  xlibs                4.2.1-16            X Window System client libraries
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 4.2.1-16            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