Bug#787087: gnome-session: breaks startup of cinnamon

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Tue Jun 2 03:49:17 UTC 2015


Am 28.05.2015 um 17:37 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> Am 28.05.2015 um 14:45 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:

>> With 3.16.0-1 the well known "Oops something went wrong" grey screen
>> appears everytime when starting cinnamon.
>>
> 
> Huh, cinnamon uses its own session manager (cinnamon-session). I don't
> see how gnome-session would be involved in starting cinnamon.
> 
> Please provide more detail, especially a detailed log of the session
> startup.

Are you by chance using gdm3 as your display manager?
This fail whale looks like it is started by gdm's gnome-session
instance. If you use an alternative display-manager, like lightdm, is
the issue gone?

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