Bug#275574: After upgrade of gnome-session and sawfish, starting gnome fails

[Christian Marillat]

reassign 275574 gnome-session
thanks

Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:

F> reopen 275574
> thanks
>
>> > after upgrading gnomesession and sawfish from woody to sarge, login
>> > takes ages and sawfish is not started afterwards (so that I'm left with
>> > no window manager at all). I think that is a very bad state.
>> >
>> > After some debugging, replacing the files /etc/gnome/default.* with the
>> > ones in /usr/share/gnome/default.*, going in via xterm and starting the
>> > control panel by hand, I managed to replace sawfish finally by metacity,
>> > and that worked at last.
>
>> You should use the conversion scripts for that. When you upgrade from
>> woody you need to logout/login and then a dialog box ask if you want to
>> convert your GNOME 1.4 configuration to GNOME 2.x
>
> In fact, I did the upgrades without gnome running at all. I stoped gdm,
> used a normal console, upgraded the packages, and re-logged in. I was
> _never_ asked by a dialog box. So, I'm keeping this bug report open.

Nothing related to sawfish then.

> (And, I was not able at all to get sawfish working together with gnome.
> Even a purge and re-install was not enough.)

Sawfish works fine. See the BTS, no bug are opened for that. I think you
have trashed your configuration files when you have copied the file from
/usr/share/gnome/default

For your information we have a tool called gnome-sesssion-properties who
is here for configure your session. You should *never* copy files like
you have did or edit these files by hand, except if you know what you
are doing. Doesn't seems to be the case.

Also don't file the same bug report against more than one package.

Christian