Gnome 3 fail scenario
When we last left Bob he was preparing to upgrade a host from
squeeze to wheezy, using apt-get. That has been on the whole a
roaring success, with only a sprinkling of issues -- the usual
headache with dovecot, due *entirely* to pilot error.
Why oh why do I ever choose the package maintainer's config for a
package I have already config'd? It's one of those questions that
plagues perennial philosophy. But I digress...
The host in question is a remote "vps," in this case a "linode,"
that for years happily ran gnome 2. On the new wheezy install (using
vpn) ICEwm and XFCE-4 start up very nicely indeed, thank you, but
the gnome flavor that came with wheezy (which I am calling, I hope
not mistakenly, "gnome 3") balks, with the following syslog lines:
-- syslog gluck --
Jan 25 18:52:23 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23363]: Gdk-WARNING:
gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
on X server :1.#012
Jan 25 18:54:31 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23530]: WARNING:
GSIdleMonitor: IDLETIME counter not found
Jan 25 18:54:31 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23530]: WARNING:
Session 'gnome' runnable check failed: Exited with code 1
Jan 25 18:54:31 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23530]: WARNING:
Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup session information
for process '23530'
Jan 25 18:54:31 sixtiessurvivor gnome-session[23530]: WARNING: Could
not parse desktop file
-- syslog gluck --
Installing the 'gnome-session-fallback' package has given me a
somewhat usable gnome WM, but everything from my previous gnome
desktop has disappeared :-(. With this last complaint I am not sure
whether I may be asking/expecting too much.
If those syslog lines inspire anyone to expostulate on gnome,
debian, or the state of Western Civilization, I would love to hear
it!
Thank you all faithful assembled,
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