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JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Warning: Upcoming dbus upgrade will kill outdated gnome sessions

We're planning to upgrade dbus to 1.0.x in a short while. The new configuration files used by dbus 1.0.x is incompatible with the version in our repositories, which causes dbus to crash as soon as it tries to reload the configuration.

Due to a bug in gnome-session and the XFCE Terminal program, these programs will crash together with dbus. This bug has been fixed on Januari 23 in both gnome-session and Terminal.

When upgrading your system to dbus 1.0.x from either XFCE Terminal or Gnome with the affected packages dated before Januari 23rd, be warned that you will lose all unsaved work affected by these crashes (gnome-session drops to the console and hard-quits all your active programs, Terminal only kills all active Terminal sessions). A solution is to upgrade from outside of these programs, or, to upgrade to the latest versions of these packages, restarting these programs and then upgrade dbus.

rossm

Member

From: Australia/Melbourne

Registered: 2006-09-25

Posts: 15

Re: Warning: Upcoming dbus upgrade will kill outdated gnome sessions

Hi there,
I just did the upgrade to dbus-1.0.2-2 from a gnome terminal and although my system was up to date as of 12 hours ago I still found that the desktop and everything on it died.
regards ross

delphinen

Member

Registered: 2006-10-02

Posts: 67

Re: Warning: Upcoming dbus upgrade will kill outdated gnome sessions

see here too http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=29543

jazzi

Member

From: Xiamen

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 57

Re: Warning: Upcoming dbus upgrade will kill outdated gnome sessions

gaim's problem is also fixed.Thanks