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Package: xfce4
Version: 4.4.2.1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
If you install the xfce task, you can't start xfce4 because gdm depends on
gnome-session which pulls in gnome-settings-manager, which block mcs and
therefore xfce4 can't start.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xfce4 depends on:
ii gtk2-engines-xfce 2.4.2-2 A GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce
ii thunar 0.9.0-10 File Manager for Xfce
ii xfce4-icon-theme 4.4.2-1 Xfce Standard icon theme
ii xfce4-mcs-plugins 4.4.2-4 Special modules for the xfce4-mcs-
ii xfce4-panel 4.4.2-6 The Xfce4 desktop environment pane
ii xfce4-session 4.4.2-6 Xfce4 Session Manager
ii xfce4-utils 4.4.2-8 Various tools for Xfce
ii xfdesktop4 4.4.2-7 Provides desktop background and ro
ii xfwm4 4.4.2-5 window manager of the Xfce project
Versions of packages xfce4 recommends:
ii desktop-base 4.0.7 common files for the Debian Deskto
ii orage 4.5.14.0-1 Calendar for Xfce Desktop Environm
ii xfce4-mixer 4.4.2-3 Xfce4 Mixer frontend
ii xfce4-terminal 0.2.8-5 Xfce terminal emulator
ii xfprint4 4.4.2-5 Printer GUI for Xfce4
ii xorg 1:7.3+15 X.Org X Window System
xfce4 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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2015-12-02 23:58 To Daniel Dickinson:
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Hi Daniel,
2008-09-04 11:22 Daniel Dickinson:
Package: xfce4
Version: 4.4.2.1
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Okay, I'm going to clarify by being more organized and coherent.
Using the XFCE4 Desktop Task results in a system that does not start
the XFCE4 Desktop (gdm starts and the session tries to start, but fails)
This is because the desktop task depends on gdm and xfce4 and:
gdm depends on gnome-session-manager | x-terminal-emulator
gnome-session-manager depends on gnome-settings-daemon
xfce4 depends on xfce4-mcs-manager
The gnome-settings-daemon when it loads blocks the xfce4-mcs-manager
from loading. xfce4-mcs-manager is required for the xfce4 desktop.
However, the XFCE4 desktop task also depends on xfce4-terminal which
provides x-terminal-emulator, so gdm's dependencies *should* be
satisfied.
It appears that selecting the task (+ on the task) selects gdm before
xfce4-terminal, therefore gdm's dependencies pull on
gnome-session-manager before xfce4-terminal is selected in the gui.
This means it's easy to end up with a non-starting desktop if one
installs the standard system and then starts aptitude and select the
task in order to get an xfce4 desktop. (As in unless you know it's
going to happen it will happen).
Can you still see this issue?
I could not test with those packages/versions, but I can test in a
similar scenario and I couldn't reproduce it, so I am guessing that it
was fixing in the intervening years, probably in the run up to aptitude
0.6.
(in curses)
1) removing gawk
2) podget depends on "gawk (>= 4.0.0) | mawk (>= 1.3.0)"
3) installing podget doesn't pull in gawk, it is happy with mawk
Closing the report now, please reopen if you still experience this
problem.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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