John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > has anyone else run into a problem with the gnome session login? with > gdm or startx, it gets stuck at the gnome splash screen. it shows no > icons for loading programs like usual. > > logging in with no configs doesn't help either.
This has already been discussed on this list and debian-devel, as well as the Debian bug tracking system (see gnome-session, bonobo-activation). The new bonobo update is screwed. Downgrade all bonobo packages to the previous versions and you'll be fine. Here is a list of the packages you should have: bonobo-activation 1.0.3-2.2 libbonobo-activation4 1.0.3-2.2 libbonobo2-0 2.0.0-1 libbonobo2-common 2.0.0-1 libbonoboui2-0 2.0.3-1 libbonoboui2-common 2.0.3-1 And also these, if you need to have development packages installed (only if you compile Gnome2 programs from source): libbonobo-activation-dev 1.0.3-2.2 libbonobo2-dev 2.0.0-1 libbonoboui2-dev 2.0.3-1 If you either have a sensible approach to running Sid (which would also involve reading debian-user more carefully) or are just lucky, then you'll have copies of these packages locally, probably in /var/cache/apt/archives. If not, you can download them here: http://crdic.ath.cx/debian/ I'm assuming the mirrors don't have them anymore, since they're no longer current, and Gnome2 hasn't made it into testing, last time I checked. Craig
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