Bug#561282: gnome-session can not start gnome-wm

[Petri Kaurinkoski]

Package: gnome-session-bin
Version: 2.28.0-4
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/gnome-session

I updated my Debian/testing as I normally do a week ago and among other
things a new version of gnome-session-bin was installed. After the  
update, I
realized that the window-manager is not started  normally anymore.  
Now all
windows I open by clicking launchers in the gnome-panel are started  
without
normal window frames and I can not move them on the desktop. The system
becomes, well, not unusable, but very hard to use, and definitely not
normally usable.

I do understand that this may be directed towards the wrong package,  
but I
am sure you can easily reallocate this report appropriately.

The first few lines from .xsession-errors are:

gnome-session[3319]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-wm' of  
required component 'windowmanager'
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-oQDCaE/socket
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-oQDCaE/socket.ssh

(gnome-settings-daemon:3368): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:  
g_param_spec_flags: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_FLAGS (flags_type)' failed

(gnome-settings-daemon:3368): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:  
g_object_class_install_property: assertion `G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)'  
failed
gnome-session[3319]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'mail- 
notification.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute  
child process "mail-notification" (No such file or directory)

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3407): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:  
cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'

I do not know if any other than the first line are relevant to this
problem, but they might so they are here.

Could you please help me to solve this problem.

Best regards,

Petri Kaurinkoski

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session-bin depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.16-2   simple interprocess  
messaging syst
ii  devicekit-power               012-2      abstraction for power  
management
ii  gconf2                        2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration  
database syste
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared  
libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess  
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-2     simple interprocess  
messaging syst
ii  libdevkit-power-gobject1      012-2      abstraction for power  
management -
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration  
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-1   The GLib library of C  
routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.18.3-1   The GTK+ graphical user  
interface
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client  
Exchange library
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management  
library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.2-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                       1:1.0.5-1  X11 authorisation library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous  
extension librar
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.5-1  X Rendering Extension  
client libra
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.0.3-1  X11 Testing -- Resource  
extension

gnome-session-bin recommends no packages.

gnome-session-bin suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


--
  Petri Kaurinkoski <Petri.Kaurinkoski at iki.fi>