Bug#302071: error output when sourcing /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55gnome-session_gnomerc

[Geoff Crompton]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.8.1-6
Severity: minor

When I log in from gdm, I see the following line in my
~/.xsession-errors:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: line 4: [: ')' expected, found /usr/bin/gnome-session

This is occuring because in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55gnome-session_gnomerc
there is a call to `readlink /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager`.
However on my system there is no /etc/alternatives/x-session-manger
link.

I don't know if the code in 55gnome-session_gnomerc should be modified
to account for this possibility, or if something else is broken in my
system and that they x-session-manager link really should be there.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  capplets                 1:2.8.1-4       configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-base             0.3.15          common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gconf2                   2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                  0.2.35-2        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.3-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.1-2         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.1-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.2-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
pn  liborbit2                                Not found.
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
pn  libwrap0                                 Not found.
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxmu6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxrandr2               4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxt6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

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