Bug#531611: gnome-session: postinst fails when calling update-alternatives

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 
> > For users, the simple work-around is "rm 
> > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz" but please provide the
> > infos requested above before-hand.
> 
> I just did this after lxsession.postinst failed with the same error.
> However, /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager now points to lxsession,
> and not to my old alternative (icewm-session) anymore. Output from
> lxsession.postinst:
> 
> Setting up lxsession (0.3.8+svn20090521-1) ...
> update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/lxsession to provide 
> /usr/bin/x-session-manager (x-session-manager) in auto mode.

This is not the consequence of the removal of
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz. It might be the case if
you removed /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager however (but I
never advised that).

In any case, update-alternatives keeps the user settings as long as the
user settings are not broken (pointing to non-existing files for example).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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