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Bug 497471 - gnome doesn't start in sabayon xnest in slackware
gnome doesn't start in sabayon xnest in slackware
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: sabayon
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: Maintainers of sabayon
Maintainers of sabayon
: 497470 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-16 20:22 UTC by Jared
Modified: 2008-01-07 21:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Jared 2007-11-16 20:22:02 UTC
Steps to reproduce:
1. run sabayon
2. edit profile
3. xnest opens to just a black screen


Stack trace:


Other information:
This is the patch to fix the problem.

--- configure.ac.orig   2007-11-16 14:14:42.000000000 -0600
+++ configure.ac        2007-11-16 14:14:57.000000000 -0600
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@
       XINITRC_SYSCONFDIR=""
       ;;
     slackware)
-      XSESSION="/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession"
-      SESSION_NAME="gnome"
+      XSESSION="/etc/gdm/Xsession"
+      SESSION_NAME="gnome-session"
       install_xinitrc_script="no"
       XINITRC_SYSCONFDIR=""
       ;;
Comment 1 Markus Kanet 2007-12-25 08:32:51 UTC
Confirmed on Slackware 10.2/11.0/12.0, Bluewhite64 12.0 and Wolvix GNU/Linux (both Slackware like distributions).

Markus
Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-01-04 22:36:57 UTC
Good, thanks for testing this out.  Feel free to commit the patch with a suitable ChangeLog.
Comment 3 Johnny Robeson 2008-01-07 21:22:44 UTC
fixed in r905
Comment 4 Johnny Robeson 2008-01-07 21:23:08 UTC
*** Bug 497470 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***