[feisty] Metacity does not start with session

[Alexander Jones]

Every time I log in, I have no window manager. Metacity launches fine if I explicitly run it.

This started happening just a few days ago.

[Jens Krämer (jkraemer)]

Same here, problem appeared right after upgrading to 7.04 beta. I don't really know where to start looking for the cause of this...

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

My .xsession-errors is totally, utterly spammed out with crap from Evolution and co. :(

I have logged in about 6 times since this started happening, and on one occasion Metacity did actually start OK. How rare.

[MoMaT (momat)]

I've got the same behavior today after second reboot since dist-upgrade on Thursday (2007-04-19).

There is a trace of it in my /var/log/apport.log:
apport (pid 8871) Fri Apr 20 10:29:40 2007: executable: /usr/bin/metacity (command line "metacity --sm-save-file 1176762446-5049-2391774710.ms")
apport (pid 8871) Fri Apr 20 10:29:42 2007: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_metacity.1000.crash

I'm attaching the crash report.

[Sven Sternberger (sven-sternberger)]

I want to confirm this. I originally had compiz which after update to 7.04 not started . But here
I had the effect that after 2-3 minutes the compiz-wm comes up. Now I switched
to metacity, and the wm don't start at all

[miq (miqster)]

I have the same problem and it is really annoying. If need be I could attach a crash-file too.

[searayman (mikejones3)]

for me, i fixed it by goign to system>preferences>session and looking for matacity in the "current session " tab. ANd in ther ei changed the order to 50, mine was a lot higher before....

[MoMaT (momat)]

Judging from crash report this is probably a metacity bug. Adding the package.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could be a duplicate of bug #106350, do you still get the bug with the update?

[MoMaT (momat)]

After update and relogin the problem does not occur anymore. Marking as duplicate.