[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#518069: Bug#518069: gnome-session: gnome fails to start after upgrade

[Michael Biebl]

Josselin Mouette schrieb:
> reassign 518069 dbus-x11
> retitle 518069 Please always start dbus when running a GNOME session
> thanks
> 
> Le mardi 24 mars 2009 à 19:12 +0100, Jens Kilian a écrit :
>> I had the same problem as the original poster.  I use a plain Gnome session,
>> no startx, .xinitrc, .xsession, ...
>>
>> I finally tracked this down to a disabled "use-session-dbus" entry
>> in /etc/X11/Xsession.options.  After enabling it, the session comes up
>> correctly.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
> 
> It does.
> 
> I think it is time that the session dbus daemon cannot be disabled, at
> least when running a GNOME session.
> 
> A simple way to do that would be the following:
> 
> --- 75dbus_dbus-launch	2006-06-28 20:09:16.000000000 +0200
> +++ /tmp/75dbus_dbus-launch	2009-03-25 00:04:32.153708156 +0100
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>  STARTDBUS=
>  DBUSLAUNCH=/usr/bin/dbus-launch
>  
> -if grep -qs ^use-session-dbus "$OPTIONFILE"; then
> +if grep -qs ^use-session-dbus "$OPTIONFILE" || [ -n "$GNOMERC" ]; then
>    if [ -x "$DBUSLAUNCH" ]; then
>      STARTDBUS=yes
>    fi
> 

Well, use-session-dbus is enabled by default.

My point is, if people disable it, they should hopefully know what they
are doing.

Michael
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