Ubuntu
gnome-session package

  1. Bug #467668
  2. Comment #58

Comment 58 for bug 467668

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Leo (leorolla) wrote : Re: Neither compiz nor metacity nor nautilus are run at start

Hi Chris,

It really does seem to be related to gnome-session (or whatever is responsible for reading the homefolder config files and load the window manager).

From the reports of several users, in Bug #572617 :
- The problem never happens with user accounts that are created after Karmic-Lucid upgrade and only used under a Lucid boot.
- It seem that the problem always disappears after removing ~/.config/gnome-session

If this is correct, it would be lack of backward compatibility in reading the home directory.

This renders the desktop session unusable for at least
(i) upgrades from Karmic
(ii) fresh Lucid installs keeping the Karmic home directory
(iii) home directory used with two releases on the same machine
(iv) two releases on the same network of machines in, say, an office

In some cases there is no healthy solution: saving the session, changing dektop effects etc etc... For many users nothing but the ugly "rm -rf ~/.config/gnome-session" worked.