no gnome user sessions after 20070618 changes

[Tom London]

On 6/20/07, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:39:44PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:43 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:00:12PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > > > After I applied 20070618 updates then I cannot start any
> > > > gnome session for a non-root user.
> > >
> > > After some experiments it turned out that something stopped
> > > accepting my existing ~/.gconf directories.
> >
> > Fixed in 2.19.4-2.fc8, provided you are complaining about rawhide...
> > you didn't tell
>
> I am guessing that this mysterious "2.19.4-2.fc8" will really mean
> currently available gnome-session-2.19.4-2.fc8.  With that
> my old ~/.gconf directories seems to be acceptable again. Thanks.
>
> OTOH there is a new surprise.  On every seesion an alert shows
> up 'Failure to execute child process "xscreensaver" (No such file
> or directory)'.  A typo somewhere?  /usr/bin/xscreensaver
> definitely does exist and it will even run when started from
> a terminal window or that configuration thingy in "Preferences".
> I cannot find anything more about this failure in any possible
> logs.
>
Reverting control-center to control-center-2.19.4-1.fc8 seems to fix
this (and a few other problems) for me.

tom
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Tom London