Bug#259550: sarge: changing "DefaultSession" does nothing

[Timo Aaltonen]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-3
Severity: important

Changing the DefaultSession to anything but the default has no effect,
it always falls back to what the Xsession gets from
/etc/Xsession.d/50xfree86-common_determine-startup. Putting
"STARTUP=/usr/bin/gnome-session" in the Xsession itself does start
gnome-session like I want.

I haven't tested this on sid.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.57                Add and remove users and groups
ii  aterm [x-terminal-em 0.4.2-10            Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  ctwm [x-window-manag 3.6-2               Claude's Tab window manager
ii  debconf              1.4.29              Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                 1.10.22             Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  fvwm [x-window-manag 2.5.10-6            F(?) Virtual Window Manager, versi
ii  gksu                 1.0.7-1             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.6.1-5             The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.6.1-4             The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal- 4:3.2.2-1           KDE X terminal emulator
ii  lesstif-bin [x-windo 1:0.93.94-4         User binaries for LessTif.
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.16-5            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.6.1-2             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             2.4.16-1            Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.6.2-4             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.6.1-1             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4          2.6.2-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.0-1           Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.4.2-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0          2.6.1-8             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.6.1.1-2           A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.6.1.1-3           The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.6.1.1-3           The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common  2.6.1.1-3           The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgsf-1             1.9.1-6             Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.4.3-1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2            1:2.10.2-1.1        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules       0.76-22             Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.76-22             Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.76-22             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.4.0-4             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-4               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.6.4-7             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1          1.14-1              SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0             7.6.dbs-4           Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2              2.6.10-3            GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-m 1:2.8.1-3           A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  rxvt [x-terminal-emu 1:2.6.4-6           VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
ii  sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20040617-3 A window manager for X11
ii  twm [x-window-manage 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients        4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.1.1-3         compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm