Bug#292812: gnome-session-properties fails to load

[Jack Johnson]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.8.1-5

While trying to do a fairly minimal gnome installation on
sarge/testing, gnome-session-properties fails to launch (though other
gnome-*-properties seem to work just fine).

I'm an avid debfoster user, so it's possible that on this particular
box I've uninstalled some dependency in the core that's not explicitly
listed in the package dependencies.

A transcript with relevant data follows.  The package rox-filer is the
only package installed from sid/unstable (built from source on the
same box).


jack@moo:~$ gnome-session-properties 

** (gnome-session-properties:1970): CRITICAL **: file gsm-protocol.c: line 648 (
gsm_protocol_new): assertion `GNOME_CLIENT_CONNECTED (gnome_client)' failed

** (gnome-session-properties:1970): WARNING **: Could not connect to gnome-sessi
on.
jack@moo:~$ sudo update-alternatives --list x-session-manager
/usr/bin/gnome-session
jack@moo:~$ gnome-session-properties 

** (gnome-session-properties:1973): CRITICAL **: file gsm-protocol.c: line 648 (
gsm_protocol_new): assertion `GNOME_CLIENT_CONNECTED (gnome_client)' failed

** (gnome-session-properties:1973): WARNING **: Could not connect to gnome-sessi
on.
jack@moo:~$ ps aux | grep session
jack      1737  0.0  3.2 18540 8456 ?        S    18:13   0:00 x-session-manager
jack      1773  0.0  0.3  3016  900 ?        Ss   18:13   0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agen
t x-session-manager
jack@moo:~$ sudo update-alternatives --list x-session-manager
/usr/bin/gnome-session
jack@moo:~$ sudo debfoster --show-keepers
The following packages are on keeper list:
  abiword apmd autofs base-config bc bin86 bison build-essential bzip2
  capplets cupsys dc debfoster debhelper dhcp-client discover1 dnsutils
  doc-debian doc-linux-text dpatch eject ethereal fdutils finger flex ftp
  gaim gdb gdm-themes gimp gnome-volume-manager gnu-efi gnumeric gnupg grub
  helix-player iamerican ipmasqadm irssi-text kernel-image-2.4-386 less
  libdb4.3 libident libnss-db libreadline5 libtextwrap1 libxaw6 locales lsof
  menu-xdg metacity-themes mgp mozilla-firefox mpack mtr-tiny ncurses-term
  nmap pidentd procmail python-gtk2 python-newt rcs reportbug rox-filer scite
  screen ssh strace telnet texinfo time tsclient vncserver w3m whois
  x-window-system-core xnest xpdf xpp xterm xvncviewer zip
jack@moo:~$ uname -a
Linux moo 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Thu Dec 30 18:13:12 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks,

-Jack