Bug#174226: marked as done (kdebase: Added session types are removed by installation of unrelated packages)
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Package: kdebase
Version: 4:2.2.2-14
Severity: normal
Session types added through kcontrol (or direct editing of kdmrc) get
deleted whenever update-menus is invoked. This happens whenever you
install a package that has a menu entry.
I think kcontrol should add the new session type to the list of
alternatives for x-session-manager to prevent this behavior.
It might also be nice to add a comment in kdmrc warning about this
behavior. kdmrc is part of the kdm package; I've filed the bug here
because I think the main fix is to kcontrol.
The problem happens because update-menus invokes /etc/menu-methods/kdm.
This in turn invokes kdm-update-menu in its postrun.
kdm-update-menu rebuilds the session menu unless generate-sessiontypes
is not in /etc/kde2/kdm/kdm.options (by default, it is). When it
does, it pulls together alternatives registered for x-window-manager
and x-session-manager. I assume this behavior is debian-specific.
This is for a testing kde2 system; I don't know if it's changed with
the kde3 packages.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wheat 2.4.19advncdfs #1 Sun Nov 10 02:28:05 PST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages kdebase depends on:
ii debianutils 1.16.7 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii kdebase-libs 4:2.2.2-14 KDE libraries and modules for kdeb
ii kdelibs3 4:2.2.2-13.woody.5 KDE core libraries (runtime files)
ii kdewallpapers 4:2.2.2-14 Some wallpapers for KDE
ii libc6 2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0 2.6.8-3 client library to control the FAM
ii libjpeg62 6b-6 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkonq3 4:2.2.2-14 Core libraries for KDE's file mana
ii libpam-modules 0.76-7 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpng2 1.0.12-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt2 3:2.3.1-22 Qt GUI Library (runtime version).
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2. 1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
ii xfree86-common 4.2.1-3 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii xlibs 4.2.1-3 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-6 compression library - runtime
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This bug report is hopelessly obsolete. Kdm handles sessions in a
completely new way now.
Cheers,
Christopher Martin
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