I had the same problem as the original poster. I use a plain Gnome session, no startx, .xinitrc, .xsession, ...
I finally tracked this down to a disabled "use-session-dbus" entry in /etc/X11/Xsession.options. After enabling it, the session comes up correctly. Hope this helps, Jens. -- mailto:j...@acm.org As the air to a bird, or the sea to a fish, http://www.bawue.de/~jjk/ so is contempt to the contemptible. [Blake] http://del.icio.us/jjk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org