Hi there,
I am using the gnome2 packages from sid and experimental, as well as the
openoffice.org package (1.0.0-4), and was quite aware from the changelog
that the package was supposed to have a workaround for the conflict with
the GNOME session manager. But I am finding that openoffice often quits,
in exactly the same way as it used to do before the workaround was put
in place. I don't know if the same problem exists with GNOME 1.4 though.
Here is the problem.
Firstly, the PID of the session manager is found using
echo $SESSION_MANAGER | sed --quiet "s,local.*/,,p"
and the result put into $SMPID
Then the following expression is evaluated:
ps -p$SMPID -ocmd --no-heading
and if that contains the phrase "gnome-session" in the first word, it is
considered that a GNOME session manager is running. But on my system
(98% woody, 2% sid), that ps returns "x-session-manager". It seems that
ps on this system doesn't resolve symlinks from
/usr/bin/x-session-manager to /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager to
/usr/bin/gnome-session.
A workaround which seems to work for my system is to find where
/proc/$SMPID/exe is symlinked to, and search that for gnome-session.
If anybody has a better way for this, that would be good, the above was
just the easiest way I could think of to resolve possibly multiple
symbolic links to the final destination. And it needs testing by people
with other GNOME versions.
Comments?
Gary.
--- openoffice Thu May 30 10:57:05 2002
+++ openoffice.new Fri Jun 14 15:19:24 2002
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
SMPID=`echo $SESSION_MANAGER | sed --quiet "s,local.*/,,p"`
if [ -n "$SMPID" ]; then
- if ps -p$SMPID -ocmd --no-heading | grep -q "^[^ ]*gnome-session"; then
+ if ls -l /proc/$SMPID/exe | grep -q " \-> [^ ]*gnome-session"; then
echo "Gnome session manager detected - session management disabled"
unset SESSION_MANAGER
fi
