Bug 309161

Summary:	>=gnome-base/gdm-2.23.90 needs gnome-session
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Benedikt Reinartz <filmor>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Benedikt Reinartz 2010-03-12 18:20:36 UTC

When starting gdm without having gnome-session installed the screen just stays black with a mouse cursor at the center. "emerge gnome-session" fixes this and the logs also say that gdm tries to launch /usr/bin/gnome-session.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge '>gdm-2.20' && emerge -C gnome-session
2. /etc/init.d/xdm restart

Actual Results:  
Screen is black with no chooser or greeter available.

Expected Results:  
The greeter should show up.

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2010-03-13 10:06:59 UTC

I think that this was introduced on 2.23.90:
===============
Version 2.23.90
===============

 * A few multi-monitor fixes for the greeter
 * Don't load local users at all if user list is disabled
 * Switch to using gnome-session 2.23.6+ for simple-greeter session manager
...

Also, I have seen that gdm.spec from fedora already includes it as a dep :-/

Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-14 21:57:53 UTC

+  14 Mar 2010; Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org> gdm-2.26.1.ebuild,
+  -gdm-2.28.2.ebuild, gdm-2.28.2-r1.ebuild:
+  Add gnome-base/gnome-session to RDEPEND, bug #309161.

Thanks for reporting.