Bug#557193: gnome: Attempting to logout -- popup window saying "File Manager not responding"

[Rick Thomas]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 01:36 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : 
>> When Gnome starts up, the desktop icons do not appear.
>>
>> When I try to logout,  get a popup window saying "File Manager not responding".
>> There is an option to logout anyway.  If I choose that, it logs out successfully.
>>
>> This behavior seems to only occur after the first time I log in.
>> The first time after a reboot, everything happens as expected -- desktop
>> icons appear and logout goes without a hitch.
>>
>> This is a test machine, so I can load experimental software on it if necessary.
>
> Well, no need for experimental. Does it still happen if you upgrade
> nautilus and gnome-session to the unstable versions?
>
> Cheers, 
Sadly, that did not help.

I put this into /etc/apt/apt.conf
    APT::Default-Release "testing"

and added "sid" to my /etc/apt/sources.list, which now looks like this

    rbthomas at greybox:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
    # deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main

    deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib

    deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ sid main non-free contrib

    deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib 
non-free

then did
    aptitude update
and
    aptitude -t unstable install nautilus gnome-session

which replaced nautilus and gnome-session and a dozen or so other packages
that they depend on.


But after a reboot, there was no change in the desktop's behavior.

Just as a check that I have the correct versions installed...

    rbthomas at greybox:~$ aptitude -vv show nautilus | egrep 
'^(Version|Archive): '
    Version: 2.28.1-1
    Archive: unstable
    Version: 2.28.1-1
    Archive: now
    Version: 2.26.3-1
    Archive: testing

    rbthomas at greybox:~$ aptitude -vv show gnome-session | egrep 
'^(Version|Archive): '
    Version: 2.28.0-4
    Archive: unstable
    Version: 2.28.0-4
    Archive: now
    Version: 2.26.2-1
    Archive: testing


Got anything else you want me to try?

Rick