Bug#443759: gnome-session: Session does not start up gnome settings daemon

[Ian McDonald]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.20.0-1
Severity: important


About half the time when I login I get a dialog box which pops up and
says:

"There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work
correctly.

The last error message was:

Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application
did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log
in."

And my settings are lost (for that session).

Here is my .xsession-errors file - I'm guessing it is the window manager
warning. (I've logged bugs for the other problems also...)

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w
/var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l
":0" "ian"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
can't lock memory: Cannot allocate memoryWARNING: not using secure
memory for passwords

** (seahorse-agent:18995): WARNING **: no SSH agent running on the
system. Cannot proxy SSH key requests.
SESSION_MANAGER=local/jandi3:/tmp/.ICE-unix/18995
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
/home/ian/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file
'/home/ian/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
seahorse nautilus module initialized
Initializing gnome-mount extension

** (gnome-panel:19083): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1263: failed to
load applet OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet:
Failed to resolve, or extend
'!prefs_key=/apps/panel/applets/applet_2/prefs;background=none:;orient=down;size=x-small;locked_down=false
** Message: drive = 0
** Message: volume = 0
** Message: drive = 0
** Message: volume = 0
** Message: drive = 0
** Message: volume = 0
** Message: drive = 0
** Message: volume = 0
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
*** CLB *** Initializing Google Browser Sync...
*** CLB *** Instanciating core objects...
*** CLB *** Registering with XPCOM...
*** CLB *** Adding categories...
*** CLB *** Google Browser Sync initialized succesfully!
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gnome-terminal:19141): Vte-WARNING **: No handler for control sequence
`device-control-string' defined.




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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc3faster (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.20.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.20.0-1   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.20.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.20.0-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-5      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  libgconf2-4                 2.20.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.1-3     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0           0.8.1-2      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.20.0-1     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.20.0-1     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.0-2     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               1.18.2-1     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                      1:2.20.0-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus                      2.18.3-3   file manager and graphical shell f

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