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Re: [edlug] GDM lost it's sessions
My Debian "testing" box got hit by this a couple of days ago after
an upgrade, and started firing up in KDE mode all the time.
Check out the gdm bugs on the Debian site and look at
241096, 241247, 241184 and the ones merged with them.
In the meantime someone on #debian told me to
put "exec gnome-session" in my (previously nonexistent) ~/.xsession
and that got gnome back just fine. The gdm menu is still empty though.
Presumably it will get fixed by some future upgrade when gdm and gnome
agree on where to install stuff.
One good thing about all this: I did actually spend some time playing
with KDE. Nice!
Tim
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 21:02, Alistair J Ross wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I upgraded gdm today (my default login manager) and now it only
> gives me the following options:
>
> 1. Previous session
> 2. Failsafe GNOME
> 3. Failsafe xterm
>
> Whereas, gdm used to read the contents of /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions -
> which had a session file for my wm, pwm. They are all still there.
> Any ideas why this is doing this? I've removed and reinstalled gdm
> but no joy there. I can't see how gdm is trying to read Sessions
> from another config file.
>
> Regards,
>
> Al.
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Tim Day - www.timday.com
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