Bug#775877: gnome-session: No mouse pointer after login

[Podrigal, Aron]

Hi Simon, sorry for my late response, That issue seems like its gone
already for a while, I did not notice when exactly. It has been some time
and I've had some updates to some other packages. The missing mouse pointer
however perhaps is not a bug in gnome-session. Its probably somewhere in
gnome-settings-daemon, however I tried running it with --debug but did not
notice any special log entries leading to this.
If you can advise where and how to look for, I will definitely try to find
the problem.

Thanks

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> On 06/03/15 10:00, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 at 21:43:09 -0500, Aron Podrigal wrote:
> >>      Jan 20 16:46:18 jessie gnome-session[1888]:
> >>
> GLib-GIO:ERROR:/tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gio/gdbusconnection.c:4231:invoke_set_property_in_idle_cb:
> >>      assertion failed: (error != NULL)
> >
> > This seems likely to be the problem: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with
> > an assertion failure.
>
> gdbusconnection.c:4231 is the last of the lines I've quoted here:
>
>   if (!data->vtable->set_property (data->connection,
>                                    g_dbus_message_get_sender
> (data->message),
>                                    g_dbus_message_get_path (data->message),
>                                    data->interface_info->name,
>                                    data->property_name,
>                                    value,
>                                    &error,
>                                    data->user_data))
>     {
>       gchar *dbus_error_name;
>       g_assert (error != NULL);
>
> So the bug here is that something, somewhere in the
> gnome-settings-daemon process, has a set_property() callback
> that fails without correctly setting the error.
>
> Searching the gnome-settings-daemon source code, the only obvious
> possibility is in the power plugin. Aron, please try this and see
> whether it works better for you:
>
>
> https://people.debian.org/~smcv/gnome-settings-daemon_3.14.2-2+smcv1_amd64.deb
>
> Regards,
>     S
>
>
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