Bug#360538: Logging into Gnome session exits immediately

[Eric Dorland]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.13.0.10-2
Severity: important

This is a strange one. With my current user, logging in using the Gnome
session type (and the Gnome Fail Safe session as well) exits immediately 
(right after entering the password). I created a new user account and it
works alright. I deleted the usual suspects (.gnome2, .gconf, a few
more) and I still saw the failure. If you can suggest a way to debug
this I'd be very happen to provide more information. /var/log/gdm was
not very helpful, and neither was .xsession-errors file. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.85                Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.4.72              Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                 1.3.6-1             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.14.0-1            The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.14.0-1            The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.11.4-1            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             2.4.32-1            Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                2.3.6-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcairo2            1.0.2-3             The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdmx1              6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      Distributed Multihead X client lib
ii  libfontconfig1       2.3.2-5             generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.5.1-2           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.10.1-2            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.14.0-1            A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.8.16-1            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules       0.79-3.1            Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.79-3.1            Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.79-3.1            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.12.0-2            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.14.2-1            SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common      2.14.2-1            SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1          1.30-1              SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0             7.6.dbs-9           Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxau6              6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      X Authentication library
ii  libxcursor1          1.1.3-1             X cursor management library
ii  libxdmcp6            6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii  libxext6             6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6               6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama1         6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2              2.6.23.dfsg.2-3     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2           6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.0.2-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  lsb-base             3.0-16              Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-m 1:2.14.1-1          A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20050709-6 a window manager for X11
ii  twm [x-window-manage 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients        6.9.0.dfsg.1-5      miscellaneous X clients
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 210-2               X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3-11          compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.5            Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  zenity                    2.12.1-2       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm