Bug#581591: gdm: Message saying session only lasted less than 10 seconds on login

[Paul Stevens]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-3
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze

When logging in to an LXDE session I get the following error message; "Your
session only lasted less than 10 seconds.  If you have not logged out yourself,
this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out
of diskspace.  Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you
can fix this problem."

The ~/xsession-errors file has only the following entry: "/etc/gdm/Xsession:
Beginning session setup..."

This error occured on a clean install of Debian with LXDE and also a Gnome
install that I added the LXDE packages to. If I close the error message window
the system goes back to the login screen but if I leave the message window
alone I can operate normally. System works fine on Gnome.




-- 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=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.112        add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.32       Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                        2.0.2-2+b1   graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session [x-session-ma 2.30.0-1     The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal- 2.30.0-1     The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.21-1     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.30.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                    1:2.4.44-1   Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                       2.10.2-6     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.10-4     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.24-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.86-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1                     1:1.1.0-2    X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1              2.8.0-2.1    generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.3.11-1     FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.4-1    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.24.0-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.30.1-1     A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.20.1-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libpam-modules              1.1.1-3      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              1.1.1-3      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    1.1.1-3      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.28.0-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2                  2.26.3-1     SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common             2.26.3-1     SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1                 2.0.94-1     SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.q-18     Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.3.3-3    X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                     1:1.0.5-2    X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6                   1:1.0.3-2    X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                    2:1.1.1-3    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                      2:1.3-4      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1                2:1.1-3      X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  lxsession [x-session-manage 0.4.1-2      a lightweight X11 session manager
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal-emul 0.1.7-1      desktop independent vte-based term
ii  metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.30.1-1   lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  openbox [x-window-manager]  3.4.11.1-1   standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  twm [x-window-manager]      1:1.0.4-2    Tab window manager
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 256-1        X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20100119-2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.6.2          Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-8      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  xserver-xephyr            2:1.7.6.901-3  nested X server
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.5+6        the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                    2.30.0-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages gdm suggests:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.30.1-2   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  locales                       2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  pm-utils                      1.3.0-1    utilities and scripts for power ma

-- debconf information: