GDM / GNOME Errrors

Russell Cook ruscook at gmail.com
Thu May 12 11:33:28 UTC 2005


Hi folks,
I've been investigating a GDM startup error  on my fathers Hoary system. 
I have GDM working now by copyin my /etc/gdm directory and the 
/etc/gnome* directories.

Whenever any one logs in we get the following error:
    "Cannot find or run the base session script, will try the Gnome 
failsafe session."

We click the Ok button and then the following appears:
    "This is the failsafe session. You will be logged into the "default" 
session of Gnome.
We click on the Ok button and enter a normal looking Gnome session.

Syslog has the following entries for a login that results in the above 
messages:
May 12 21:01:27 arch kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device 
at 0000:00:00.0.
May 12 21:01:28 arch kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 
0000:00:00.0 into 2x mode
May 12 21:01:28 arch kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 
0000:01:00.0 into 2x mode
May 12 21:01:55 arch gdm[20656]: session_child_run: Cannot find or run 
the base Xsession script, will try GNOME failsafe
May 12 21:01:57 arch gconfd (harry-20667): starting (version 2.10.0), 
pid 20667 user 'harry'
May 12 21:01:57 arch gconfd (harry-20667): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 0
May 12 21:01:57 arch gconfd (harry-20667): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/home/harry/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at 
position 1
May 12 21:01:57 arch gconfd (harry-20667): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 2
May 12 21:02:08 arch gconfd (harry-20667): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/home/harry/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at 
position 0
May 12 21:04:33 arch gconfd (harry-20667): Exiting


May 12 21:06:57 arch kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device 
at 0000:00:00.0.
May 12 21:06:57 arch kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 
0000:00:00.0 into 2x mode
May 12 21:06:57 arch kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 
0000:01:00.0 into 2x mode
May 12 21:12:08 arch gdm[22083]: session_child_run: Cannot find or run 
the base Xsession script, will try GNOME failsafe
May 12 21:12:10 arch gconfd (ruscook-22096): starting (version 2.10.0), 
pid 22096 user 'ruscook'
May 12 21:12:10 arch gconfd (ruscook-22096): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 0
May 12 21:12:10 arch gconfd (ruscook-22096): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/home/ruscook/.gconf" to a writable configuration source 
at position 1
May 12 21:12:10 arch gconfd (ruscook-22096): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only 
configuration source at position 2
May 12 21:12:23 arch gconfd (ruscook-22096): Resolved address 
"xml:readwrite:/home/ruscook/.gconf" to a writable configuration source 
at position 0
May 12 21:13:07 arch gconfd (ruscook-22096): Exiting


Any ideas on what to do or replace next?

-- 
Kind Regards Russell
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