[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#749389: xmonad GNOME session references obsolete component gnome-panel

[Lars Wirzenius]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 06:55:51PM +0100, David Banks wrote:
> The file installed to /usr/share/gnome-session/xmonad.session contains a line
> as such:
> 
>   RequiredComponents=gnome-settings-daemon;gnome-panel;xmonad
> 
> However, in GNOME 3.8 the 'gnome-panel' component was removed, meaning that
> xmonad is unable to start up through GDM.  GDM will give the message
> "Oh no!  Something has gone wrong", while syslog will reveal the true culprit:
> 
>   May 26 15:51:45 motylyok gnome-session[5779]: gnome-session[5779]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'gnome-panel'
>   May 26 15:51:45 motylyok gnome-session[5779]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'gnome-panel'
> 
> Removing the 'gnome-panel' reference from the session file allowed xmonad/GNOME
> to start up correctly.

I get the same error dialog, but removing gnome-panel from that
session file doesn't fix it for me. My syslog has this:

        Jun 17 20:24:06 exolobe1 gnome-session[5646]: WARNING:
        Application 'xmonad.desktop' failed to register before timeout

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