Bug#402708: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#402708: xfce fails to start

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

reassign #402708 xfce4-session
retitle #402708 xfce4-session doesn't start without xfce4-session.rc
severity #402708 serious
thanks,

Current xfce4-session in sid doesn't ship a xfce4-session.rc. It's
required for startup, as it ship the Failsafe Session, which is the
default one when no session was previously started.

xfce4-session doesn't ship the xfce4-session.rc like before
(in /etx/xdg/xfce4-session) because this folder has a priority greater
then the one shipped with desktop-base. desktop-base ships session and
splash files for a default Debian installation, and these should be able
to be overriwritten by admins, using files in /etc/xdg/xfce4-session.

But now, if an user never started xfce4-session and doesn't have
desktop-base installed, start will fail like in your case.

A temporary solution is to install desktop-base but it shouldn't be a
dependency.

Shipping a xfce4-session.rc with only failsafe session in xfce4-session
is doable, but there won't be a splash screen. 
We need a xfce4-session.rc in a folder less important
than /usr/share/desktop-base/profiles/xdg-config/, but this would
require an upload of libxfce4util4, so it wouldn't reach Etch.

I see currently two solutions:
* make xfce4-session depend on desktop-base
* ship a xfce4-session.rc in /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/ with only failsafe
session. Users without desktop-base won't see a splash screen at first
start but could configure one later.

Both solutions need an upload of xfce4-session and a transition to Etch.
Current xfce4-session in testing doesn't have the problem, because it
ships a xfce4-session.rc with everything.

I make the severity serious because current xfce4-session won't start
for freshly installed sid.

Regards,

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Bug#402708: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#402708: xfce fails to start

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mar, 2006-12-12 at 10:16 +0200, mikes kikou wrote:
 i did a clean install of debian sid. then i installed xfce as i 've
 done many times. when i type startx,after some attempts X fails to
 start. i added the repositories o debian xfce team and did the
 upgrades but it didn;t fix.
 
 i also tried fluxbox and kde and i had no problem at all. i finally
 checked with wdm and i had problem again only with xfce4.

Without any log it's quite hard to tell what happens. Do you have
a .xinitrc ? How do you chose that xfce, fluxbox or kde should start,
when using startx ? Can you attach any log (output from
startx, .xsession-errors etc.) to your bug report, so one can tell
what's happening ?

If you try by using startxfce4, does it work ? If not, can you attach
(if different from startx) the logs ?

Regards,


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