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and subject line closing ancient gnome-session bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #716778,
regarding gnome-session: session is unusable (looks like memory problem)
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.4.2.1-4
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
in a new installation (not an upgrade) upon first login (greeter and login
worked perfectly), the user name and other texts are displayed with missing
letters (e.g. the user name, "Emil" is displayed as "Em l"). The Super_L key
and <Alt><F1> work as expected but no programs can be started as everything
just shows up as blue windows. These windows have the expected size and seem to
receive keyboard input as well as pass it on to the respective program, e.g.
Terminal. No output is visible, though. The programs can be stopped in the
normal way, e.g. by (blindly) typing <Ctrl>D in the Terminal window. Logout is
also possible without problems. I have tried reinstalling first gdm3 and
gnome-session and the the whole system without effect.
This is my second installation of Wheezy. The first was on an Eee PC, and there
logins and programs work well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii gnome-session-bin 3.4.2.1-4
ii gnome-session-common 3.4.2.1-4
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3+deb7u1
ii gnome-shell 3.4.2-7
Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii gnome-power-manager 3.4.0-2
ii gnome-session-fallback 3.4.2.1-4
Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii desktop-base 7.0.3
ii gnome-keyring 3.4.1-5
ii gnome-user-guide 3.4.2-1+build1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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