Bug#425742: gnome-session: completely breaks desktop

[Julien Langer]

On Mi, 2007-05-23 at 22:06 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 23 mai 2007 à 19:36 +0200, Julien Langer a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> Could you send us your .gnome2/session file? Does it help if you move
> it
> away?
> 
I did not have a session file since I never saved one and disabled the
automatic save feature in gnome-session-settings. And that also seems to
be the problem, -2 refuses to start when no session file is present.

I just saved one with -1 and now -2 also starts.
However -2 should also work without a session file.

Interestingly with the created session file the splash screen doesn't
disappear anymore (only when left clicked. This did not happen without a
session file in -1)