Bug#480469: X crashes on first login after reboot

[Patrick Schoenfeld]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.22.0-2
Severity: important

Hi,

since a few weeks I have the problem that X crashes when logging in on
gdm for the first time. After gdm restarted its then possible to login
and start my gnome-session. I thought this might be related to gdm, but
while troubleshooting I tried to start XFCE instead of GNOME directly
after the reboot and that worked fine. From ~/.xsession-errors I cannot
see anything that looks relevant to the error to me, but I'm unsure:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/maggie:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3362
xrdb:  "*Label.background" on line 220 overrides entry on line 150
xrdb:  "*Text.background" on line 226 overrides entry on line 191
xrdb:  "*Label.foreground" on line 232 overrides entry on line 151
xrdb:  "*Text.foreground" on line 238 overrides entry on line 192
Fenstermanager-Warnung:Gespeicherte Sitzungsdatei /home/schoenfeld/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms konnte nicht gelesen werden: Datei »/home/schoenfeld/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms« konnte nicht geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Initializing gnome-mount extension
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension

** (gnome-session:3362): WARNING **: Host name lookup failure on localhost.
** Message: <info>  Sie sind nun mit dem drahtlosen Netzwerk 'BOUMER2' verbunden.

unable to connect to the rxvt-unicode daemon: Connection refused
urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path
urxvt: perl extension 'mark-urls' not found in perl library search path

A bit strange is the host name lookup failure on localhost, because /etc/hosts
contains valid entries for localhost.

schoenfeld at maggie ~ % grep localhost /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

But as /etc/hosts hasn't been changed (for example by
network-manager-gnome) I guess that is not related.

Any ideas?
Best Regards,

Patrick

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.22.1-1    utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-power-manager        2.22.1-1      frontend for gnome-powermanager
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      2.22.1-2      GNOME settings daemon
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.22.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.7-10        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.1-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.74-4        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          2.22.1-1      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.9-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.4-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.12-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.2-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                     2:1.0.3-1+b1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.q-15      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-7     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.3-2     X11 authorisation library

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gnome-panel                   2.20.3-3   launcher and docking facility for 
ii  metacity                      1:2.22.0-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus                      2.20.0-3   file manager and graphical shell f

-- no debconf information