From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754705AbYCTIKo (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:10:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752468AbYCTIKd (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:10:33 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57633 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752415AbYCTIKc (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:10:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:10:28 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ray Lee Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Romano Giannetti , linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails Message-ID: <20080320081028.GA27854@infradead.org> References: <1203332161.26696.11.camel@pern> <2c0942db0802180815r59c2ef1s8d4c2e1e733b79c4@mail.gmail.com> <20080317120641.GA16710@infradead.org> <2c0942db0803170847n3e88bdf6r33eabe4c15e7d3f2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0803170847n3e88bdf6r33eabe4c15e7d3f2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.