RE: gnome-session problem

["Kenneth Christiansen" <kenth writeme com>]

I have the same problem, I'm using gnoem-libs-0.27-1 rpm files

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> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
> To: GNU Network Object Model Environment <gnome@jporritt.demon.co.uk>

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> Poz> I've got a few problems with getting gnome-session to start. I've
> Poz> compiled everything up without problems, and tried several ways
> Poz> of getting gnome-session to work properly. It seems to start
> Poz> icewm and gnome-smproxy OK, but not panel, gnome-help-browser or
> Poz> gmc. The latter 3 progs can be started individually however. I'm
> Poz> running the latest releases of the gnome package. (gnome-core
> Poz> v0.28-1, gnome-libs v0.27, gnome-utilities v0.28, etc.)
> 
> At least one version of the gnome-libs had a bug that prevented
> programs from working under the session manager.  I'm afraid I don't
> know much more about it than this.
> 
> Maybe you could make a stack trace for one of the failing programs?
> 
> The behavior you see is consistent with this problem.  The reason is
> that neither icewm nor gnome-smproxy use the Gnome libs.
> 
> Tom