[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#518069: Bug#518069: gnome-session: gnome, fails to start after upgrade

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:10 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 08 avril 2009 à 16:29 +0200, Vittore Scolari a écrit :
> > If I replace gnome-session with dbus-lauch gnome-session I get:
> 
> When the session bus is correctly started, there is no autostart and
> gnome-session doesn’t start it either, so that works correctly.
> 
> X guys: is it normal that using startx does apparently not launch the
> scripts from /etc/X11/Xsession.d ?
> 
No, unless the user has a .xinitrc in their home directory, or gives an
explicit command line argument to startx.  Otherwise startx
runs /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which sources /etc/X11/Xsession, and thus
should behave the same as a session started from a DM.

Cheers,
Julien