>>>> "MB" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] >> Me and a few other guys from #debian on OPN only just figured out >> the cause of a few problems that some users who've just fresh >> installed gnome on unstable, or 'sid' systems only to have gnome >> crash upon a session starting. These users would receive an error >> message saying that GNOME could not resolve the host 'debian' from >> /etc/hosts. The root of the problem however does not lie in their >> systems not providing proper nameservices. After noticing that this >> problem only occured with users not having an earlier installed copy >> of GNOME and some debugging we finally discovered that the task >> pacakge named above does not install the gnome-bin package, >> currently versioned at 1.2.4-6. After installing gnome-bin via apt >> and restarting X, the problem was fully resolved. MB> I could add the package, but this is not the proper fix. You can MB> install GNOME without the task package, miss gnome-bin and have the MB> same problems. MB> gnome-bin contains some Corba stuff like MB> /usr/bin/gnome-name-service. I wonder if this is the problem. MB> If gnome-bin is needed to run GNOME, some central package should MB> depend on it. MB> Opinions? I reassign this bug against gnome-session. Christian
