[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#686565: Bug#686565: Bug#686565: xfce4-session: Please unfreeze fix for xfce sessions saving bug (fwd)

Lionel Le Folgoc lionel at lefolgoc.net
Mon Nov 12 16:42:18 UTC 2012


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:31:40PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 
> >On lun., 2012-11-12 at 15:17 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> >>On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 13:25 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> >>>>Hello Debian Release Team,
> >>>
> >>>This isn't really how one requests an unblock... :P
> >>>
> >>>[...]
> >>>>Please save Xfce users the pain of their desktop breaking out of the blue -
> >>>>please let this package migrate to wheezy.
> >>>
> >>>See http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xfce4-session.html , specifically
> >>>the "testing migration" section. The package has been unblocked for a
> >>>few days already but hasn't migrated yet because it was uploaded with
> >>>the urgency field set to "low" by the maintainers.
> >
> >Yeah, the bug is present in sid/wheezy since months so it's not like few
> >days more will really matter, and if the fix introduces a regression,
> >I'm ok with having 10 days for people to notice it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> And I'm actually not really sure if 4.8.3-3 actually fixed the bug.
> 
> As with the original bug reporter xfce was working here session
> restore and everything until today when xfwm4 didn't automatically
> start any more.
> 
> I installed xfce4-session 4.8.3-3 and rebooted. Still, xfwm4 would
> not start. So I started it by hand.
> 
> Logged out, logged in, xfwm4 did not start automatically.
> 

If you have a broken session cache already, the patch won't help, you
still need to clear $HOME/.cache/sessions manually (the patch only
prevents the bug from appearing).

-- 
Lionel



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