Submitted 19-Jul-00 by Guillaume Rousse:
> I just upgraded mandrake_desk, which removed /etc/X11/windows-managers.
> Now only functionning sessions are sawfish and failsafe.
> At boottime, only available gdm sessions are sawfish and failsafe. GDM
> error messages :
> jui 19 23:34:54 agathe gdmlogin[1281]: Wrong permissions on
> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions//Gnome. Should be readable/executable for all.
> jui 19 23:34:54 agathe gdmlogin[1281]: Wrong permissions on
> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions//Enlightenment. Should be readable/executable for
> all.
> When manually chmod +x /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/*, enlightenment and gnome
> sessions becomes available also, but are broken, and switch to failsafe.
> Here is chcksession -l result :
> [root@agathe guillaume]# /usr/sbin/chksession -l
> sawfish default failsafe
>
> I've looked for error messages in /var/log/messages, in
> $HOME/.xsession-errors, but found nothing. I've checked xinitrc,
> gnome-core, enlightenment for version number, all are most recent one.
> So, where is the problem ?
>
I don't use runlevel 5, so I'm not terribly familiar with the session
selections, but I did run into the same effects. After upgrading
mandrake_desk, the next time I started X I ended up in failsafe
(IceWM). Upgrading sawfish gave me that as well. Then I did:
# cd /etc/X11/wmsession.d/
# cp 6Sawfish 2Gnome
I then edited my new 2Gnome file to point to gnome-session instead of
sawfish. Then I started X, brought up a term and launched my WM
(which had gone missing). Logged out saving the session and I was
back in business.
I don't think all of the window managers have caught up with the new
session management just yet (Probably will as they get their BM and
macro mods).
--
_
_|_|_
( ) * Anton Graham
/v\ / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
/( )X
(m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541
Penguin Powered!
