FS#5076 - Removing Epiphany breaks gdm/Gnome

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Donald Beck (Pudge) - Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 15:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I just did a complete install of Arch Linux with Gnome on a new computer. Since I don't use Epiphany, as usual I did a pacman -R epiphany and the next time I tried to log into Gnome, it would not bring up Gnome. I got the following error descriptions

Start description

Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try loggin in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem.

View details ~/.xsession-errors

/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning Session setup...
/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/dbus-launch /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-session
Failed to start message bus: Failed to read directory: "/opt/gnome/share/dbus-l/services" : No such file or directory
EOF in dbus-launchreading address from bus daemon

End description

Re-installing Epiphany fixed the problem. With epiphany installed, I can log into Gnome.
I could re-create the problem by simply removing Epiphany again.
I'm not sure if this is an Epiphany problem, a gdm problem, a Gnome problem, or a dbus problem.

Thanks

Don
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 17:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in gnome-common 2.12.0-5
Comment by Donald Beck (Pudge) - Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 15:14 GMT
Addendum:

By the way, this happened on a fresh install. I have several existing Arch installations that I removed Epiphany from a long time ago, then updated through the pacman -Syu process and they work without Epiphany just fine.

This was a standard installation, using the vanilla kernel.

Don
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 15:19 GMT
It's a bug in gnome-common, that should add a .keep file to the dbus directory that becomes empty after removing epiphany.

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