Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34624
Comment: 1) Create a new user 2) Log in as that user 3) Go to System->Preferences->Assistive Technology Support 4) Enable assistive technology support 5) Click Close and Log Out 6) Click Log Out 7) Log in again After the gnome splash screen, a window pops up saying: "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 disk space. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem." 8) Click View details (~/.xsession-errors file) The window extends to show: <GDM PreSession and Xsession messages snipped as they look normal and I have no copy-paste across screens> "Bonobo accessibility support initialized GTK Accessibility Module initialized SESSION_MANAGER=local/maihem:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2034" <ALSA messages snipped as there are loads and my main account didn't show them when it went wrong - my main account doesn't start esd - also because I have no copy-paste across screens> 9) Click OK, you are returned to GDM 10) Attempt log in with GNOME failsafe session On my main account, I though I got the same error as a normal GNOME session, this test account simply seems to return straight to the login screen (Or in my case, another user's locked session). 11) Attempt to log in with failsafe xterm session login succeeds 12) type metacity& into the xterm, press return 13) metacity starts, xterm receives decoration, and the message "GTK Accessibility Module initialized" is printed 14) run gconf-editor gconf-editor appears briefly, messages appear in the terminal: "Bonobo accessibility support initialized GTK Accessibility Module initialized ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default Bonobo accessibility support initialized GTK Accessibility Module initialized ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default " 15) run gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility --type bool false 16) run gconf-editor editor starts 17) log out, then in with normal gnome session 18) log in proceeds normally -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
