Bug#385958: gnome-session: Startup fails with my configuration

[Heikki Kantola]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.14.3-1
Severity: important

There is something weird happening when I attempt to start GNOME with 
my session settings (included below), namely the startup begins
normally and then kaboom the session ends prematurely and I am
returned to the login manager (or shell where startx was invoked).
My prime suspect for this behaviour is the fact that I am using
two display setup without Xinerama and therefor there has to be two
instances of my favourite window manager FVWM (currently from Debian
package fvwm-gnome 2.5.17-1) and given that there has already been 
reports on that gnome-session fails to launch multiple instances of 
xterm, my problems may be related to that. I've tried with another
user account, where the window manager is sawfish and there seems to
be no problem. Also on a laptop I manage to run the very same GNOME 
and FVWM versions fine, but there I have just one screen, so the 
problem most likely has something to do with my desktop dualhead X 
configuration.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gconf2                       2.14.0-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center         1:2.14.2-3  utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.12.1-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                 2.14.0-1    Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libesd0                      0.2.36-3    Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.14.0-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2           2.14.3-1    Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                  2.14.1-3    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                 2.14.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.8.20-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                      1:1.0.0-3   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                    1:2.14.0-2  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.12.3-2    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                       1:1.0.1-2   X11 Session Management library
ii  libwrap0                     7.6.dbs-11  Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.0-8   X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                      1:1.0.0-4   X11 authorisation library
ii  libxrandr2                   2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  dbus                 0.62-4              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  desktop-base         0.3.17              common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-panel          2.14.3-1            launcher and docking facility for 
ii  metacity             1:2.14.5-1          A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus             2.14.3-1            file manager and graphical shell f
ii  sawfish              1:1.3+cvs20060518-3 a window manager for X11

-- no debconf information

-- my .gnome2/session

[Default]
0,id=117f000001000103608059800000011600000
0,Program=swisswatch
0,CloneCommand=swisswatch -g -5+5 
0,RestartCommand=swisswatch -g -5+5 
1,id=117f000001000093829120800000006310007
1,RestartStyleHint=2
1,Priority=40
1,Program=gnome-panel
1,CurrentDirectory=/home/hezu
1,CloneCommand=gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix /gnome-panel-tLMLI7/ --profile default 
1,RestartCommand=gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix /gnome-panel-tLMLI7/ --sm-client-id 117f000001000093829120800000006310007 --screen 0 --profile default 
2,id=11c0a80001000107770125200000130010000
2,Program=hardware-monitor
2,CurrentDirectory=/home/hezu
2,CloneCommand=hardware-monitor --sm-config-prefix /hardware-monitor-Ry5nfh/ 
2,RestartCommand=hardware-monitor --sm-config-prefix /hardware-monitor-Ry5nfh/ --sm-client-id 11c0a80001000107770125200000130010000 --screen 0 
3,id=11c0a80001000107767037400000032340062
3,Program=xterm
3,CloneCommand=xterm -g +560+806 
3,RestartCommand=xterm -xtsessionID 11c0a80001000107767037400000032340062 -g +560+806 
4,id=11c0a80001000107770141700000130010003
4,Program=xterm
4,CloneCommand=xterm -display :0.1 -g +1+25 -T Muffin\\ window 
4,RestartCommand=xterm -xtsessionID 11c0a80001000107770141700000130010003 -display :0.1 -g +1+25 -T Muffin\\ window 
5,id=11c0a80001000107770143500000130010004
5,Program=xterm
5,CloneCommand=xterm -fn -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1 -g -1+150 
5,RestartCommand=xterm -xtsessionID 11c0a80001000107770143500000130010004 -fn -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1 -g -1+150 
6,id=11c0a80001000107765948500000032340059
6,RestartStyleHint=0
6,Priority=30
6,Program=/usr/bin/fvwm2
6,DiscardCommand=rm -f /home/hezu/.fs-gOpflo 
6,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/fvwm2 -d :0.1 -s -clientId 11c0a80001000107765948500000032340059 -restore /home/hezu/.fs-gOpflo 
7,id=11c0a80001000107765951500000032340060
7,RestartStyleHint=0
7,Priority=30
7,Program=/usr/bin/fvwm2
7,DiscardCommand=rm -f /home/hezu/.fs-yWo3uo 
7,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/fvwm2 -d :0.0 -s -clientId 11c0a80001000107765951500000032340060 -restore /home/hezu/.fs-yWo3uo 
8,id=117f000001000095889223100000006430000
8,RestartStyleHint=2
8,Priority=0
8,Program=gnome-smproxy
8,DiscardCommand=rm /home/hezu/.gnome2//.gnome-smproxy-0DZCJo 
8,CloneCommand=gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-0DZCJo/ 
8,RestartCommand=gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-0DZCJo/ --sm-client-id 117f000001000095889223100000006430000 
9,id=11c0a80001000107761151400000032340010
9,Program=/usr/lib/gnome-panel/glunarclock-applet-2
9,CloneCommand=/usr/lib/gnome-panel/glunarclock-applet-2 
9,RestartCommand=/usr/lib/gnome-panel/glunarclock-applet-2 
num_clients=10