Eugene, I have purged and re-installed your PPA as you suggest in comment #20, but the problem is back: The session does never start, and in ~/.xsession-errors I see:
gnome-session-flashback (3.8.0): attempting to launch gnome-session at 2014-09-22T13:14:34+0200 gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support. gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256 gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support. gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256 ** (process:12360): WARNING **: software acceleration check failed: Child process exited with code 1 ** (gnome-session:12360): CRITICAL **: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry.... Has something changed with your PPA? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251281 Title: gnome-session-flashback fails to start without hardware acceleration in cloud/remote environments (Forwarded-X/XRDP/VNC/NX/X2GO/Chromoting) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-session/+bug/1251281/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
