Re: Bug#80733: unstable's task-gnome-desktop 1.0.11 does not install gnome-bin 1.2.4-6
>>>> "MB" == Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:
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>> Me and a few other guys from #debian on OPN only just figured out
>> the cause of a few problems that some users who've just fresh
>> installed gnome on unstable, or 'sid' systems only to have gnome
>> crash upon a session starting. These users would receive an error
>> message saying that GNOME could not resolve the host 'debian' from
>> /etc/hosts. The root of the problem however does not lie in their
>> systems not providing proper nameservices. After noticing that this
>> problem only occured with users not having an earlier installed copy
>> of GNOME and some debugging we finally discovered that the task
>> pacakge named above does not install the gnome-bin package,
>> currently versioned at 1.2.4-6. After installing gnome-bin via apt
>> and restarting X, the problem was fully resolved.
MB> I could add the package, but this is not the proper fix. You can
MB> install GNOME without the task package, miss gnome-bin and have the
MB> same problems.
MB> gnome-bin contains some Corba stuff like
MB> /usr/bin/gnome-name-service. I wonder if this is the problem.
MB> If gnome-bin is needed to run GNOME, some central package should
MB> depend on it.
MB> Opinions?
I reassign this bug against gnome-session.
Christian
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