Re: Gnome and X no longer works

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 	Don't know what's happening.  I upgraded today in unstable
> (I upgraded everyday).  But Gnome and X no longer works.  X seems
> to start properly, but not gnome.  My .xsession-error said
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/ssh-agent
> /home/lauedw/.xsession: No such file or directory
>
> and my .xsession is like
>
> exec gnome-session
>
> gnome-session is there for sure... so what's missing...

I haven't restarted X since upgrading, but I did notice that the upteenth
repackaging of XFree86 4.1.0 contained this bit:

Setting up xfree86-common (4.1.0-7) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/X11/Xsession ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/20xfree86-common_process-args ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/30xfree86-common_xresources ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50xfree86-common_determine-startup ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90xfree86-common_ssh-agent ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start ...

-jwb