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

[Heikki Kantola]

According to Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>:
> 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 ?

I checked and yes, there is a trace of crash. Relevant parts of that
log seem to be:

SetKbdSettings - type: -1 rate: 30 delay: 500 snumlk: 0

   *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
   *** be the reason for the server aborting.
      
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x89) [0x80b67d9]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCompositeCopyAreammx+0x60) [0xa77d1560]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbComposite+0x527) [0xa77c2087]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libxaa.so(XAAComposite+0x1ee) [0xa777b41e]
5: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x81503e6]
6: /usr/bin/X11/X(CompositePicture+0xeb) [0x813e08b]
7: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8144280]
8: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8141115]
9: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x19b) [0x8086b3b]
10: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x48e) [0x806e5de]
11: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xa7cffea8]
12: /usr/bin/X11/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xad) [0x806d911]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

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

Did so, quit the on-going session and logged in again and the session
startup still fails the same way as earlier. :(
 
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