Bug#784671: gdm3 wouldn't start until caribou path changed

[Michael Biebl]

Am 07.05.2015 um 19:01 schrieb jmullee:
> Package: gdm3
> Version: 3.14.1-7
> Severity: grave
> Tags: patch
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Recently upgraded wheezy to testing (jessie)
> 
> gdm3 wouldn't start.
> several log messages:
>         May  4 18:24:25 tosh gnome-session[1371]: gnome-session[1371]: WARNING:
> Could not parse desktop file caribou-autostart.desktop or it references a not
> found TryExec binary
> 
> There are 2 files of this name:
>         /etc/xdg/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop
>         /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop
> 
> I changed gdm's caribou-autostart.desktop path to caribou to match xdg version
> 
> /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop
>         Was: Exec=/usr/lib/gdm3/caribou
>         Now: Exec=/usr/lib/caribou/caribou
> 
> Gdm starts ok now.
> 
> This may explain other people's gdm start problems

While I can't reproduce the start failure, this seems like an obvious error, indeed.

diff --git a/data/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop.in b/data/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop.in
index 38b3fc6..9f72d52 100644
--- a/data/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop.in
+++ b/data/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
 Type=Application
 Name=Caribou
-Exec=@LIBEXECDIR@/caribou
+Exec=@LIBDIR@/caribou/caribou
 AutostartCondition=GSettings org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-keyboard-enabled
 X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true


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