gnome-session ignores the previosly saved session

[Stefano Sabatini <stefano sabatini-lala poste it>]

Hi to all gnome users,

I'm running gnome 2.18 on Debian Lenny.

I have the following annoying problem with gnome-session (2.18.3):
it seems to save correctly the session file ~/.gnome2/session, but
then when I load another session it overwrites that file and start
with a clean session (metacity as WM, no terminals and other
applications loaded but those in ~/.config/autostart). 

~/.xsession-errors doesn't say nothing relevant.

Do you have some suggestion? How could I start to debug the problem?

I didn't find with Google any information regarding this problem.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Regards.
-- 
Stefano Sabatini
Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)