Bug#548446: [gnome-session] Gnome doesn't start since gnome-session upgrade

[Juhan Ernits]

Hi!

This bug just exhibited itself when upgrading from an older version of Gnome2 to 
the current testing 2.28.0-6. Gnome starts fine for a user with a freshly 
created account but hangs just after displaying the background 
image with accounts with old Gnome2 configuration present.

In my case the solution was to remove the following 
files/directories:

~/.nautilus 
~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml
~/.gconf/apps/panel

Cheers,

--
Juhan Ernits



The additional symptoms of the hang were devkit-disks-daemon and dbus-daemon 
taking ~20% each of cpu:

root     14298  4.0  0.1   5048  2864 ?        S    09:55   1:14 
/usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon
root     14299  0.0  0.0   4784   716 ?        S    09:55   0:00 
devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0
juhan     2743  0.0  0.0   2844   572 ?        S    10:26   0:00 
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
juhan     2743  0.0  0.0   2844   572 ?        S    10:26   0:00 
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
juhan    31589  5.2  0.0   2844  1092 ?        Ss   10:25   0:03 
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session


.xsession-errors had repeated errors of the following flavour:

(gnome-panel:5469): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.68 for 
volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding 
drives/volumes/mounts

(nautilus:5470): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed for 
type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not 
receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

(nautilus:5470): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.70 for volume 
monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding 
drives/volumes/mounts

(gnome-panel:5469): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed 
for type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did 
not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

(gnome-panel:5469): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.70 for 
volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding 
drives/volumes/mounts



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=et_EE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=et_EE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-panel                   2.28.0-3   launcher and docking facility for
ii  gnome-session-bin             2.28.0-6   The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii  gnome-session-common          2.28.0-6   Common files for the GNOME session
ii  gnome-settings-daemon         2.28.1-2   daemon handling the GNOME session
ii  metacity                      1:2.28.0-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  nautilus                      2.28.4-1   file manager and graphical shell f
ii  policykit-1-gnome             0.96-2     GNOME authentication agent for Pol

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.28.3-2   power management tool for the GNOM

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-keyring                 2.28.2-1   GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii  gnome-user-guide              2.28.2-1   GNOME user's guide

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