Bug#647123: gnome-session fails to start from gdm3

[Nicolas Stransky]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.0.2-3
Severity: normal

Hello dear Maintainer,

Ever since I upgraded to GNOME 3, gnome-session fails to start normally.
Whenever I login on gdm3, I immediately get an error message saying that
gnome-session failed to load and I only get an x-term window after
pressing OK. "GNOME" session, "GNOME-failsafe" or "System default" session 
all lead to the same problem. I do not have a .xsession file in my user 
directory and I am relying on the systems defaults to load gnome-session. 
However, .xsession-errors contains the following after login:
/etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/gdm3/Xsession: Executing gnome-session failed, will try to run
x-terminal-emulator

The odd thing is that when I type "gnome-session" in the xterm window I
get after login, it seems to load fine and it starts the various GNOME
components normally (gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-shell, etc).

I'd be happy to give more details but I'm not sure exactly where to
look.

Thanks,
Nicolas


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-session-common   3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.0.3-3
ii  gnome-shell            3.0.2-5

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager     3.0.2-2
ii  gnome-session-fallback  3.0.2-3

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base      6.0.7  
ii  gnome-keyring     3.0.3-2
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.2.1-1

-- no debconf information