When ${HOME}/.dmrc is not found or does not contain any relevant data AND autologin is enabled, gdm fails to set DESKTOP_SESSION, not stripping ".desktop" extension to session char* variable. This is a bug in daemon/slave.c code and causes the GNOME Applications menu to not be shown when in use with new gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.26.x session ebuilds because DESKTOP_SESSION="gnome.desktop" instead of DESKTOP_SESSION="gnome" Please find a working patch attached (tested on gdm-2.20.10) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 201213 [details, diff] fix DESKTOP_SESSION env variable setup
ah the vicious bug, thanks for finding this out. Could you also test/check that gdm-2.26 code is safe wrt this issue ?
You're welcome :) Looking at gdm 2.26.1 source code, code has been completely rewritten and it doesn't seem to have issues here (just tested)
+*gdm-2.20.10-r2 (24 Aug 2009) + + 24 Aug 2009; Romain Perier <mrpouet@gentoo.org> + -gdm-2.20.10-r1.ebuild, +gdm-2.20.10-r2.ebuild, + +files/gdm-2.20.10-desktop-session-dmrc-autologin.patch: + Fix bug #281442, wrong DESKTOP_SESSION set if ${HOME}/.dmrc is empty and + autologin enabled. Thanks to Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@sabayonlinux.org> for + this work. Clean up old revision. Fixed into the main tree with a revision bump. Thanks for you work and for reporting ;)
