Bug#284090: gnome-session: Hmmm...

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.18.3-1
Followup-For: Bug #284090

Hi,

I looked at this problem again, and I was able to fix the hanging splash
screen by removing both gnubiff and yarssr from .gnome2/session. 
When I log in now, the splash screen disappears quickly. After the login
sequence I do see yarssr and gnubiff getting started in my panel. How
can that be explained?

The hint was to look at .xsession-errors, which contained complaints
about programs not knowing about -sm style options, meaning they are not
going to register to the session manager, indeed.

I'm also still puzzled how/why these things end up in the session file
when saving a session, while they're not even compatible with the GNOME
session manager system.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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 gnome-session depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.20.1-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.18.1-1   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.20.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.20.1-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-1+b1   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]      0.2.36-3     Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.20.1-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.3-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2          2.20.1-1     Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-keyring0           2.20.1-1     GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.1-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.4-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.18.3-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                      2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
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  libxrandr2                  2:1.2.2-1    X11 RandR extension library

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.1.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  desktop-base                  4.0.3      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-panel                   2.18.3-2   launcher and docking facility for 
ii  metacity                      1:2.20.1-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus                      2.18.3-3   file manager and graphical shell f

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