Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Unable to start gnome except with failsafe session

Bug #20265 reported by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Having just copied over dot-files and dot-directories from an old system on to a
new (Breezy Colony 3) system, Gnome will now fail to start except with the
failsafe gnome session. It hangs at the splash screen after the Metacity icon
has been displayed, but before anything else. I can then kill X with C-A-Bksp,
and login with failsafe gnome. Even after saving a session with
gnome-session-save from a successful Failsafe login, the behavior persists.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Is your lo interface correctly configured? Does "ping
127.0.0.1" work? Does moving ~/.gnome2/session somewhere else fix the issue?

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=3383)
Broken gnome session file

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth) wrote :

lo is correctly configured, and I can ping 127.0.0.1. Moving .gnome2/session
out of the way appears to have fixed the problem.

I've attached the offending session file, since even a bad session file
shouldn't cause the desktop to fail to login.

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Jonathan Carter (jonathan) wrote :

Does this still happen under Ubuntu 6.06 LTS?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

Changed in gnome-session:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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