Bug#385958: gnome-session: Startup fails with my configuration

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 04 septembre 2006 à 12:12 +0300, Heikki Kantola a écrit :
> Package: gnome-session
> Version: 2.14.3-1
> Severity: important
> 
> There is something weird happening when I attempt to start GNOME with 
> my session settings (included below), namely the startup begins
> normally and then kaboom the session ends prematurely and I am
> returned to the login manager (or shell where startx was invoked).
> My prime suspect for this behaviour is the fact that I am using
> two display setup without Xinerama and therefor there has to be two
> instances of my favourite window manager FVWM (currently from Debian
> package fvwm-gnome 2.5.17-1) and given that there has already been 
> reports on that gnome-session fails to launch multiple instances of 
> xterm, my problems may be related to that. I've tried with another
> user account, where the window manager is sawfish and there seems to
> be no problem. Also on a laptop I manage to run the very same GNOME 
> and FVWM versions fine, but there I have just one screen, so the 
> problem most likely has something to do with my desktop dualhead X 
> configuration.

It looks like "just another libxklavier crash"...

Question 1: after that happens, is there a trace of a crash
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old ?

Question 2: what if you run:
	gconftool-2 -- recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/bell_custom_file

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