Re: Will a developer please respond to this session problem (was: GNOME-session: Still fails!)

["Tim Lewis" <tlewis digaudio com>]

Hello Owen:
Per your comment about uninformative subjects, I thought the words
'GNOME-session still fails!' (see subject above) in my subject was ample to
attract the attention of a developer related to GNOME-session.  Plus, two
other users responded that they were having the same problem.  I assumed
from this that it would easily be noticed by a developer.  Since the
'GNOME-session still fails!' thread didn't get any response, I re-submitted
it as 'Will a developer please respond...'  My apologies if I did not make
things obvious.

Regarding bugs.gnome.org, I did report this, but the message bounced as of
Friday (sent to submit@bugs.gnome.org).  I re-sent it this morning;  we'll
see what happens.

Thank you for your response, Owen.

Regards,

Tim Lewis

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
To: Tim Lewis <tlewis@digaudio.com>
Cc: Gnome List <gnome-list@gnome.org>; Felix Bellaby <felix@pooh.u-net.com>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Will a developer please respond to this session problem (was:
GNOME-session: Still fails!)


>
>"Tim Lewis" <tlewis@digaudio.com> writes:
>
>> I would appreciate it if one of the developers knowledgeable on session
>> management would read this and comment.  At least three users have had
the
>> same problem and symptoms.  This seems to be a major bug.  It also seems
>> that at 0.99.8, session management should be pretty stable.  Perhaps I am
>> wrong.
>
>First, there is so much traffic on gnome-list, developers
>may well not see the bugs that are relevant to them.
>Putting uninformative subject lines like
>("Will a developer please respond...") doesn't really
>help.
>
>The best way to get your bugs looked after is put
>them in the gnome bug tracking system. (See
>http://bugs.gnome.org) We don't guarantee immediate
>response, but that way, you can be sure that your
>bugs won't get lost.
>
>
>To return to the problem at hand, it seems that the
>problem is that SmsGenerateClientId is failing.
>The most likely reason for this seems to be that
>it can't do a reverse lookup on your hostname.
>
>Does:
>
> ping `hostname`
>
>work for you?
>
>Clearly, gnome-session needs to handle this better,
>and at least give an informative error message.
>
>Regards,
>                                        Owen