Bug#518069: gnome-session goes a bit further with bdus-launch (but stays unusable)

[Tanguy Ortolo]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.22.3-2
Followup-For: Bug #518069

Hello,

I am trying to launch two gnome-session's: one from GDM (no problem) and
another one with xinit.

The second one fails, as described in the bug report. But I was able to go a
little further by modifying my .xinitrc (or running this as xinit's client
parameter):
exec dbus-launch gnome-session

Launched through dbus-launch, gnome-session is able to set the mouse cursor
(instead of the X one) and to display a gnome-panel. But this gnome-panel
contains almost nothing (no visible menu…), and there is no nautilus desktop.
So, it is still an unusable gnome-session, but there is a little progress. :-)

Hope this may help,

-- 
Tanguy Ortolo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.22.2.1-2  utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      2.22.2.1-2    GNOME settings daemon
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.1-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.7-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.1-5       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.80-3        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                2.24.0-7      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.20.0-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          2.22.3-2      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.14.7-4+b1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.4-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.22.4-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                     2:1.0.3-2     X11 Session Management library
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.q-16      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.2-1       X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.3-3     X11 authorisation library

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.1-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gnome-panel                   2.20.3-5   launcher and docking facility for 
ii  metacity                      1:2.22.0-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus                      2.20.0-7   file manager and graphical shell f

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.3      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.22.1-1   GNOME user's guide

-- no debconf information