Re: gnome-libs 1.0.3 : gnome-session bug

[Mat Withers <mat withers 4thwave co uk>]

j3yang@netcom.ca wrote:
> 
> This is a very serious bug, especially for new users.
> 
> If a user has not run gnome-session before (My guess is the session
> file does not exist in the $HOME/.gnome directory) gnome-session hangs
> on startup without launching any applications. gnome-session seems
> to work when the user session file already exists.
> 
> I've not delved into gnome source before so I do not know where to start
> in debugging this behaviour, but if you need any more information on
> this, I'm sure I can seek it out.
> 
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> Joseph Yang                               j3yang@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
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I also had this problem - it wass looking for it's default.session in
$(GNOMEDIR)/share/gnome rather than the usual $(GNOMEDIR)/share . Moving
the file seemed to cure the problem.

                                Mat

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