Bug#557721: gdm fails to start gnome nor apparently to try

[Jeff Abrahamson]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:22:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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> Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 22:38 +0000, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit : 
> > On logging in from gdm, I'm dropped in a default session (no wm, no
> > gnome, etc.)  It appears that /etc/gdm/Xsession is not trying to
> > execute a gnome-session.  (See attached .xsession-errors, in
> > particular the line 'echo "$0: Executing $command failed, will try to
> > run x-terminal-emulator"' and the absence of actually executing
> > $command.)
> > 
> > I'm not sure what the right fix for this is and would prefer not to
> > start with hacks to files like /etc/gdm/Xsession.
> > 
> > I suspect this is a matter of misconfiguration somewhere rather than
> > outright bug, although perhaps that leaves a bug concerning a missing
> > error message somewhere.
> > 
> > Pointers much appreciated.
> 
> From your log, it appears that the 50x11-common_determine-startup file
> isn't sourced. Which could mean that x11-common is not installed.
> 
> Does installing x11-common help?

It was installed, but a bit of debugging revealed an installation
error.  That fixed, the gdm -> gnome -> usable system path works
correctly.

Thanks much!