Bug#730495: gnome-session-flashback: Unable to start fallback-session without compositing

[Juho Turunen]

Package: gnome-session-flashback
Version: 3.8.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I'm unable to start a gnome fallback-session without composite-extension enabled.

With composite extension it's possible to log in normally.

This problem appeared with gnome-updates about a week ago. Using gdm3 I get the "Oh no! someting went wrong" dialog. With lightdm the login-dialog just disappiers.

I was able to get things working again by reverting gnome-session, gnome-session-bin and gnome-session-common to versions from stable. (This also ment I had to change grom gdm3 to lightdm to get fever dependencies from stable.)

Now I re-installed versions from testing to submit this bugreport and still get the same errors.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (995, 'testing'), (511, 'stable'), (510, 'unstable'), (505, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback depends on:
ii  awn-applets-c-core [notification-daemon]  0.4.0-5
ii  gnome-panel                               3.6.2-2
ii  gnome-screensaver                         3.6.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                         3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-session-common                      3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                     3.8.5-2
ii  metacity                                  1:2.34.13-1
ii  nautilus                                  3.8.2-2
ii  notification-daemon                       0.7.6-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome                         0.105-2

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager  3.8.2-1

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.8.2-2
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.8.2-1

-- no debconf information