Bug#518069: gnome-session: gnome fails to start after upgrade

[Daniel Reichelt]

Hi,

after upgrading gconf to 2.24.0-7 the login on the machine itself via gdm or
plain startx works flawlessly. However I can't start my vncserver anymore, it
just hangs after the desktop background is shown. My xstartup looks like this:
$ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh
x-session-manager


The process list of dbus shows the following:

$ ps aux|grep dbus
michael  17646  0.0  0.0  21096   840 ?        Ss   Mar04   0:00 dbus-daemon
--fork --print-address 18 --print-pid 20 --session
michael  27684  0.0  0.0  21096   820 ?        Ss   Mar04   0:00 dbus-daemon
--fork --print-address 18 --print-pid 20 --session
michael  28881  0.0  0.0  21096   800 ?        Ss   Mar04   0:00
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
michael  28882  0.0  0.0  25732   740 ?        S    Mar04   0:00 dbus-launch
--autolaunch c99a1d0b92f2dc1ec596cfcd48df7e82 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
michael  28890  0.0  0.0  21096   836 ?        Ss   Mar04   0:00 dbus-daemon
--fork --print-address 18 --print-pid 20 --session

In that case, after killing PID 28890 gnome continues starting, however
complains - of course - that gnome-settings-daemon couldn't be started and
leaves me with a completely unusable desktop (e.g. Computer and Trash is shown,
clickable desktop, on panels).

I'll gladly provide you with any further information if you tell me what you need.

I don't know if this has anything to do with the issue at hand, it however
sounds somewhat familiar:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxcb/+bug/232364

Cheers
Daniel