linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:10:28 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Romano Giannetti <romanol@...omillas.es>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:47:30AM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> I'm assuming you upgraded from 2.6.24, correct? (not .25-rcX).

Yes.

> Are you running either debian or ubuntu?

Yes.

> If so, do you have the
> dbus-x11 package installed? Alternately, does /usr/bin/dbus-launch
> exist? If no, try installing dbus-x11 and try again. I think a
> side-effect of installing is to start dbus earlier, and may perhaps
> avoid the race (if it is a race that's causing all this, which I still
> think it is).

Yes, installing dbus-x11 makes everything work properly, aka paper
over the underlying issue.

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