Bug#626881: gnome-session: no way to access the preferences menu from fallback mode

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 05/19/2011 01:55 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 10:22 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit : 
>>> Oh. You might be missing the new gnome-control-center package.
>>
>> Indeed, if i install gnome-control-center/experimental, and then restart
>> the GNOME session, i get "My Account" and "System Settings" between the
>> doubled separators above.  Maybe the some dependency needs to be
>> versioned here?
> 
> Yes, it was missing an epoch. Fixed in svn, thanks.

thanks for the fix!

>> I find that if i launch both of them in rapid succession (this is a
>> slower machine), either nothing comes up at all, or a new window flashes
>> briefly and disappears (i do see the little notifications in the taskbar
>> saying "Starting User Accounts" and "Starting System Settings").
> 
> I’m afraid I can’t reproduce that. Even when starting two instances
> simultaneously from a shell, it just works.
> 
>> (gnome-control-center:2905): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid
>> uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `UmUserManager'
> 
> You might want to trace that (running it in gdb with --g-fatal-warnings
> and printing a backtrace).

I'm not sure how to attach gdb to a process triggered from the gui with
split-second timing.   if you can suggest how to do it, i'd be happy to
get you a backtrace.

or are you suggesting that there's some series of commands i could run
from a terminal to emulate the same thing?

	--dkg

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