Bug#275574: After upgrade of gnome-session and sawfish, starting gnome fails

[Andreas Barth]

reopen 275574
thanks

> > after upgrading gnomesession and sawfish from woody to sarge, login
> > takes ages and sawfish is not started afterwards (so that I'm left with
> > no window manager at all). I think that is a very bad state.
> >
> > After some debugging, replacing the files /etc/gnome/default.* with the
> > ones in /usr/share/gnome/default.*, going in via xterm and starting the
> > control panel by hand, I managed to replace sawfish finally by metacity,
> > and that worked at last.

> You should use the conversion scripts for that. When you upgrade from
> woody you need to logout/login and then a dialog box ask if you want to
> convert your GNOME 1.4 configuration to GNOME 2.x

In fact, I did the upgrades without gnome running at all. I stoped gdm,
used a normal console, upgraded the packages, and re-logged in. I was
_never_ asked by a dialog box. So, I'm keeping this bug report open.
(And, I was not able at all to get sawfish working together with gnome.
Even a purge and re-install was not enough.)



Cheers,
Andi
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