Bug#531520: Can't access my gnome desktop

[adnan at foolcontrol.org]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.26.1-5
Severity: important
Tags: patch

I understand that Gnome is going through a huge migration process, and I really love what I see from new Gnome in Debian, however there's a problem with gnome-session 2.26.1-5

This workaround may be "clumsy", but this is how I got it all sorted and working.

After this mornings update, everything was working fine until I actually restarted my computer and I wanted to login into my gnome session. gdm showed up nicely, but the thing is that it just wouldn't log in, that is it would just show my gnome desktop. There was nothing but the blank screen, I first tried "renaming" my gnome2 dir, then I tried creating a new user and loging in with that user, but nothing except that I managed to see this error message at one point:

/*
There is a problem with the configuration server,
(/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 existed with status 256)
*/

Then I went through many trivial stepss, from reinstalling my whole gnome-desktop-environment to many other "options", nothing worked.

After brief analysis I come to conclusion gnome-session 2.26.1-5 was to blame, all aptitude suggested was to remove "gnome" which is meta package AFAIK, I followed "advice" after which I was left without many gnome related packages and basically without working gnome desktop environment. 

Please note that in this process, I saw a thread with similar problem on Sidux forums which suggested that one of the gstreamer plugins is to blame, I end up removing all of the gstreamer plugins which in the ends leaves me with more Gnome packages being removed. Once again, I was left with gnome-session 2.26.1-5 being installed on my system. 

In the end, I simply downgrade gnome-session to 2.22.3-3 which also "brought" removed gnome-desktop-environment package with it. My gnome desktop is working perfectly, it even gave me a resolution to "Bluetooth applet does not start" bug (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525901)

Regards,

Adnan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.26.2-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.26.0-1    utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      2.24.1-3      daemon handling the GNOME session 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.26.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.1-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.9-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.14-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.80-4        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                2.26.2-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.20.1-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          2.26.1-1      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                2.26.0-1      The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.24.1-1      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.16.1-2      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.5-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.17-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.24.2-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                     2:1.1.0-2     X11 Session Management library
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.q-16      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.2.1-1     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.4-2     X11 authorisation library

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.14-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gnome-panel                   2.26.2-1   launcher and docking facility for 
ii  metacity                      1:2.24.0-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus                      2.26.2-5   file manager and graphical shell f

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.24.2-2   GNOME user's guide

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