problem was not being in the powerdev group. I guess the desktop env. task in d-i is what normally puts the primary user in this group? I think that another route is needed (I always deselect everything in tasksel and manually choose a subset of the gnome-desktop-environment deps immediately afterwards)
secondly I think that there should be some kind of indication from g-p-m as to why the call failed if it's a permissions issue on dbus. I'm assuming (but haven't confirmed) that it is possible for g-p-m to determine this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
