Bug#553426: choose-session option missing with no upgrade path

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 31 octobre 2009 à 08:13 +0100, Joerg Dorchain a écrit : 
> - gnome-session and X via startx does not start at all, leaving
>   no direct trace to the --choose-session option anywhere. IMHO
>   this change should be made clearer, at least in a file in
>   /usr/share/doc/gnome-session/
>   A very obcure thing to debug, IMHO impossible for mere users.
>   Thus, the upgrade breaks previously running systems without
>   notice.

Sorry but I don’t buy this. Mere users don’t configure the
--choose-session option by hand. This feature never worked properly to
begin with. You’re probably the first one to complain of its removal.

> - I have no idea and found no information on how to convert my
>   old sessions from .gnome2/session into the new format. Internet
>   search does not really help here. If this bug report does not
>   help neither, I have to consider that this upgrade caused a loss of
>   user data.
>   If there is a procedure (script would be fine), it could be
>   mentioned in /usr/share/doc/gnome-session/upgrade or the like.

There is no such script. If you can provide one, we could patch
gnome-session so that it is executed at the upgrade time, but be warned
that it won’t be trivial to write, since the new format requires more
information than the old one used to.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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