Re: Bug#80733: unstable's task-gnome-desktop 1.0.11 does not install gnome-bin 1.2.4-6
* Andrew Lau <netsnipe@debianplanet.org> wrote:
Hi,
[ Fullquote because of debian-gtk-gnome ]
> 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.
I could add the package, but this is not the proper fix. You can
install GNOME without the task package, miss gnome-bin and have the
same problems.
gnome-bin contains some Corba stuff like
/usr/bin/gnome-name-service. I wonder if this is the problem.
If gnome-bin is needed to run GNOME, some central package should
depend on it.
Opinions?
Ciao,
Martin
PS: I see that Christian Marillat is away for two weeks.
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