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Bug 457774 - gnome-base/gnome-light should depend on gnome-screensaver
Summary: gnome-base/gnome-light should depend on gnome-screensaver
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2013-02-15 23:23 UTC by Jesús Guerrero Botella (RETIRED)
Modified: 2013-08-27 12:59 UTC (History)
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Description Jesús Guerrero Botella (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-02-15 23:23:11 UTC 
The fact is that gnome can't start if it doesn't find gnome-screensaver. It shows the infamous "Something has gone wrong", and other than that, it offers no hint to the average user about what's going wrong.

Unless someone wants to dig into this and patch it to work without gnome-screensaver, I suggest adding it as a runtime dependency.
Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2013-02-16 04:53:26 UTC 
What GNOME version? (e.g, gnome-session version)
Comment 2 Jesús Guerrero Botella (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-02-16 07:58:39 UTC 
Sorry to have been so short in details, gnome-session is 3.6.2-r2.

The kdm log doesn't provide much more info, and so doesn't the .xsession-errors file, but I can attach them if you think it's worth something.

Thank you-
Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-08-27 12:59:53 UTC 
This is no longer needed in 3.8 (gnome-screensaver was dropped)