[X2go-dev] GNOME does not initialize correctly: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session

[Oleksandr Shneyder]

Paul Menzel schrieb:
> Dear list,
> 
> 
> I am running Debian Sid on the server and the x2goclient_gtk. Since some
> time (I think January 2009) the GNOME session does not start anymore and
> I can just see the background picture. Unfortunately I do not know what
> has changed on the system.
> 
> Starting only a terminal or another program works.
> 
> I get this in /var/log/user.log.
> 
> Apr 13 17:02:18 hostname bonobo-activation-server (name-8129): could not
> associate with desktop session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus
> session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
> 
> The GNOME option seems to just run gnome-session. I did not find where
> this is specified. I tried to use an own command (Eigener Befehl)
> 
> /usr/bin/dbus-launch /usr/bin/gnome-session
> 
> (also with quotes) but got an error message. Starting a terminal and
> running this command worked though.
> 
> You can find the version of the programs installed on the server at the
> end of this message.
> 
> Do you have a solution for this problem?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Paul
> 
Hello Paul,

I don't know which command start Sid to launch gnome. I had the same
problem on opensuse. Solution was to launch /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
instead of gnome-session.

If you say, that /usr/bin/dbus-launch /usr/bin/gnome-session work, you
can create start script /usr/bin/start-gnome:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/dbus-launch /usr/bin/gnome-session

and start it instead of gnome-session.

IMPORTANT: do not launch it with "Single application" (Anwendung) in
x2goclient, but with "Custom" (Eigener)


> 
> $ LANG=C dpkg -l x2g*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  x2goagent      3.3.0-3-1      Special NX-ized client, was developed by NoM
> un  x2goclient     <none>         (no description available)
> ii  x2goclient-cli 2.0.1-1        x2goclient-cli command line client for x2go
> ii  x2goclient-gtk 2.99-3         x2goclient gtk client
> ii  x2goserver     2.0.1-19       x2goserver (daemon and tools)
> 
> $ LANG=C dpkg -l gnome-session
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  gnome-session  2.22.3-3       The GNOME 2 Session Manager
> 
> $ LANG=C dpkg -l dbus*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  dbus           1.2.12-1       simple interprocess messaging system
> un  dbus-1-utils   <none>         (no description available)
> un  dbus-qt-1      <none>         (no description available)
> un  dbus-qt-1c2    <none>         (no description available)
> ii  dbus-x11       1.2.12-1       simple interprocess messaging system (X11 de


-- 
Oleksandr Shneyder
Dipl. Informatik
X2go Core Developer Team

email:  oleksandr.shneyder at obviously-nice.de
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