Bug#548446: [gnome-session] Gnome doesn't start since gnome-session upgrade
Juhan Ernits
juhan at cc.ioc.ee
Sat Mar 6 09:36:07 UTC 2010
Hi!
This bug just exhibited itself when upgrading from an older version of Gnome2 to
the current testing 2.28.0-6. Gnome starts fine for a user with a freshly
created account but hangs just after displaying the background
image with accounts with old Gnome2 configuration present.
In my case the solution was to remove the following
files/directories:
~/.nautilus
~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml
~/.gconf/apps/panel
Cheers,
--
Juhan Ernits
The additional symptoms of the hang were devkit-disks-daemon and dbus-daemon
taking ~20% each of cpu:
root 14298 4.0 0.1 5048 2864 ? S 09:55 1:14
/usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon
root 14299 0.0 0.0 4784 716 ? S 09:55 0:00
devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0
juhan 2743 0.0 0.0 2844 572 ? S 10:26 0:00
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
juhan 2743 0.0 0.0 2844 572 ? S 10:26 0:00
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
juhan 31589 5.2 0.0 2844 1092 ? Ss 10:25 0:03
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
.xsession-errors had repeated errors of the following flavour:
(gnome-panel:5469): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.68 for
volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding
drives/volumes/mounts
(nautilus:5470): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed for
type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not
receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
(nautilus:5470): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.70 for volume
monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding
drives/volumes/mounts
(gnome-panel:5469): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed
for type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did
not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
(gnome-panel:5469): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.70 for
volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding
drives/volumes/mounts
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=et_EE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=et_EE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii gnome-panel 2.28.0-3 launcher and docking facility for
ii gnome-session-bin 2.28.0-6 The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii gnome-session-common 2.28.0-6 Common files for the GNOME session
ii gnome-settings-daemon 2.28.1-2 daemon handling the GNOME session
ii metacity 1:2.28.0-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii nautilus 2.28.4-1 file manager and graphical shell f
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.96-2 GNOME authentication agent for Pol
Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii gnome-power-manager 2.28.3-2 power management tool for the GNOM
Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii desktop-base 5.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto
ii gnome-keyring 2.28.2-1 GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii gnome-user-guide 2.28.2-1 GNOME user's guide
-- no debconf information
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