Bug#454097: After upgrade, gdm can start only Failsafe xterm session

[Jonathan Guthrie]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.2-1
Severity: important


After today's upgrade, no matter which session I try to start, gdm fails to
start that session and starts the Failsafe xterm session instead.  I can
manually start gnome-session and it works, but it will not start
automatically.

So far, I haven't been able to come up with a workaround.

I don't know if this indicates a source of difficult, but the ~/.xsession-errors file
always contains lines like these:


(process:29626): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:

    http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

Refusing to initialize GTK+.

(process:29630): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:

    http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

Refusing to initialize GTK+.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.105         add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.17        Debian configuration management sy
ii  fvwm [x-window-manager]    1:2.5.23-2    F(?) Virtual Window Manager, versi
ii  gksu                       2.0.0-5       graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session              2.20.2-1      The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal 2.18.3-1      The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  icewm [x-window-manager]   1.2.33-1      wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.19-3      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.20.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                   1:2.4.39-1    Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                      2.7-3         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.4.10-1      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.1.2-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.74-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1                    1:1.0.2-2     X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1             2.5.0-2       generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.14.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.20.1.1-1    A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.2-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules             0.99.7.1-5    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime             0.99.7.1-5    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                   0.99.7.1-5    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.18.3-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.18.2-1      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common            2.18.2-1      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1                2.0.15-2+b1   SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.dbs-14    Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-7     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.3-2     X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6                  1:1.0.2-2     X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.3-2     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                     2:1.1.3-1     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.2-1     X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.30.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base                   3.1-24        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-manager 1:2.20.1-1    A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  sawfish [x-window-manager] 1:1.3.1-1     a window manager for X11
ii  twm [x-window-manager]     1:1.0.3-2     Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients              1:7.3+7       miscellaneous X clients - metapack
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator 229-1         X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog             1.1-20071028-1        Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes         0.5.1                 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail           0.52.2-11.1           Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  xnest              2:1.4.1~git20071119-1 Nested X server
ii  xserver-xephyr     2:1.4.1~git20071119-1 nested X server
ii  xserver-xorg       1:7.3+7               the X.Org X server
ii  zenity             2.20.1-1              Display graphical dialog boxes fro

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