Bug#425742: gnome-session: completely breaks desktop

[Julien Langer]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.18.0-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

With gnome-session 2.18.0-2 gnome refuses to start. It hangs during the
startup with the splash screen.
Also most other X software cannot be started while gnome-session is
hanging.
It seems like gnome-session is blocking /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX since the
strace of most other programs I tried to start looks like the following:

connect(10, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=/tmp/.ICE-unix/9497}, 21) = 0
fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
write(10, 01000000, 8)        = 8
read(10, 

I also noticed that this doesn't seem to happen with all user accounts on my
machine.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.18.0.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.18.1-1   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.18.0-2     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.18.0-2     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.5-8        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-5      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.73-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]      0.2.36-3     Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.18.0.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.12-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2          2.18.1-1     Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-keyring0           0.8.1-2      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.18.0-4     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.18.1-2     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.10.12-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     1:1.0.3-2    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.16.4-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                      2:1.0.3-1    X11 Session Management library
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.dbs-13   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  libxrandr2                  2:1.2.1-1    X11 RandR extension library

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.0.2-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  desktop-base                  4.0.2      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-panel                   2.18.1-2   launcher and docking facility for 
ii  metacity                      1:2.18.2-3 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus                      2.18.1-3   file manager and graphical shell f

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