Ubuntu
gnome-session package

  1. Bug #1871882
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1871882

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Daniel Richard G. (skunk) wrote : Re: gnome-session-bin package cannot function without gnome-session

Autologin is not in use. The only unusual aspect of this login is that it is via xrdp, and because no argument is passed to the initial /etc/X11/Xsession invocation, it uses the default x-session-manager -> gnome-session . If the user logs in via the console, xfce4-session is used instead, masking the problem.

(I tested with an empty user home directory, so there is no user config to confound the problem.)

On an Ubuntu desktop system, gnome-session-binary loads /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-login.session which is provided by gdm3. So the dependency for gnome-session-bin could be stated as "gnome-session | gdm3".

The problem can be reproduced by using /usr/bin/gnome-session as the session manager, with neither the gnome-session nor gdm3 packages installed.