GDM / GNOME Errrors

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 21:33 +1000, Russell Cook wrote:
> 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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Try re-installing the offending package(s).  (In this case it's most
likely "gdm" and/or "gnome-session".)

(If this happened out of the blue, then there is definitely something
wrong and you should investigate more.)
Ziyad.