Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:00 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote:

> If I create an empty (0 length) .xsession or an .xsession file
> containing one line, say, echo hello, world, I get this error when I try
> to log into GNOME.
> 
> Your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out
> yourself this could mean there is some installation problem or that you
> may be out of disk space. Try logging in with one of the failsafe
> sessions to see if you can fix the problem.
> 
> There aren't any errors in .xsession-errors when I try to log in with
> the 0 length .xsession file. In case of the .xsession file with echo
> hello, world, I see just 'hello, world' in the .xsession-errors file.
> 
> Why does this happen?

I'll make an "educated guess" O:-) and say ".xsession" file runs the 
commands you specify and then "exits" (if none, then does nothing). 

So the message you are getting just warns you about a session expiration.

Gretings,

-- 
Camaleón