On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:30:47PM +0100, Malte S. Stretz wrote: > Package: x11-common > Version: 1:7.5+6ubuntu3 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > When I upgraded to KDE 4.6.0 recently, some weird bug in kdm (I guess, haven't > had the time to research further) started Xsession with an empty first > argument. This resulted in the message 'Xsession: unable to launch "" X > session --- "" not found; falling back to default session.' My suggestion is > to > interpret an empty first argument (which will of course never work as a > session > manager) the same as no arguments and just silently fall back to the default > session. The rationale is that the user who is confronted with such a > behaviour > can't really do anything about it. > > The original bug was reported on launchpad at > <https://launchpad.net/bugs/710144> but I forwarded it here since this is an > unmodified file from Debian.
For the records, I am having the same problem with slim and wdm, only in sid (at least, until today's testing upgrade, which I still did not test) For both, selecting an explicitly available session temporarily helps, but I'd prefer something like in your proposed patches. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
