Gnome stops responding; gnome-session restores

[David Freitas]

Binary package hint: gnome-session

Hi, I made a comment about a problem running Gnome, something to do with gnome-session:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/109760/comments/22

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I got the same behaviour as originally described. (Ubuntu 7.04; No 3d desktop)
Applications lose their "min, max, close" buttons and the title bar.
Desktop is not showing icons or responsive.
ALT-TAB doesn't work, only one application can have focus, and it covers the Applications menu bar.

It's something that goes wrong in gnome-session I guess.

Opening gnome-terminal doesn't do/show up anything. Opening "Root-terminal" works, I then type gnome-session, and everything "starts up/comes back to life".

Logging out and back in, (even ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X(sic)), and it still does the same thing. I will try deleting the gnome session file as described above.

I attached my session file.

Deleting the ~/.gnome2/session file fixed my login problems.
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[David Freitas (jddcef)]

I attach the session file that prevents my gnome from starting up.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu and window manager are you using? That might be bug #106350 which has been fixed already, do you have the current versions?

[David Freitas (jddcef)]

Hi, It's a pleasure, the more bugs reported the better for the users hay.
I did search for keywords, but didn't come across that bug page.

Using
 Ubuntu 7.04
and
 GDM 2.18.1-0ubuntu1

and
 gnome-session 2.18.0-0ubuntu3

What is the version that has been fixed?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can read the other bug, there is all the details about how to trigger the bug and what version fixed it, could you look if that correspond to your issue?

[David Freitas (jddcef)]

Thanks,

Codenames and dates are mentioned, so I assume "feisty-updates" means it's after feisty (aka 7.04).

I saw there was a update for metacity in the update notifications in the menubar that mentioned some session bug fixes. I will try it with the broken session file to see what happens and get back to this bug report.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug does lead to a broken session file, updating will not fix it, you need to reset your session, install the fixed version and try if you can break your session again

[David Freitas (jddcef)]

Thanks.

What about the users who upgrade after their session file is broken? Are they expected to delete that session file on their own?
I think the software should detect that it is broken and recover from it.

Otherwise, I think this is closed then.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The update don't change user datas, it's not likely that lot of users are running Ubuntu without any window manager though