Re: Major problems with gnome-session

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 17:23, mike wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 16:26, jacob berkman wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 21:44, mike wrote:
> > > After updating libgnome (inc ui,canvas) to 112.1 gnome-session crashes
> > > immediately
> > > 
> > > Only way to get bck into gnome is to downgrade to 1.112.0
> > 
> > do you have .ICEAuthority* files in your home directory?
> > 
> > there is a bug about that in bugzilla already.  otherwise, please file a
> > bug report (you may have to run a window manager from the console to get
> > bug-buddy to work when gnome-session crashes).
> 
> removed .ICEauthority - no different
> 
> I have tracked it down to libgnomecanvas-1.112.1 - downgrading to 112.0
> fixes it
> 
> Even using cvs gnome-session makes no diffrence
> 
> The errors I get all relate to glib_gobject (impossible to do bug report
> as session crashes before anything gets loaded)

that's why there are failsafe sessions.  run twm, then gnome-session in
a debugger.

jacob
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