Bug 752893 – invalid session being saved

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Bug 752893 - invalid session being saved


Summary:	invalid session being saved


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	gnome-session
Classification:	Core
Component:	gnome-session
Version:	3.9.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Session Maintainers
QA Contact:	Session Maintainers

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Reported:	2015-07-26 16:18 UTC by Brian J. Murrell
Modified:	2015-07-26 16:46 UTC

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Description Brian J. Murrell 2015-07-26 16:18:28 UTC

When I log out of my desktop I get some files in ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/, pressumably the saving of my session so that it can be restored on next login.

But on next login I get an error from gnome-session:

env: unrecognized option '--sm-client-id'
Try 'env --help' for more information.
...
gnome-session[9609]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-panel.desktop' failed to register before timeout
gnome-session[9609]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

and the session aborts.  Investigation leads to the following:

$ cat ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/gnome-panel.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Panel
Comment=Launch other applications and provide various utilities to manage windows, show the time, etc.
Icon=gnome-panel
Exec=env --sm-client-id 1037b9c00525f898c4143792614760363700000101790000 XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-flashback- gnome-panel
Terminal=false
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-panel
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.8.0
Categories=GNOME;GTK;System;Core;
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Panel
X-GNOME-Provides=panel
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-panel-3.0
X-GNOME-Autostart-startup-id=1037b9c00525f898c4143792614760363700000101790000

Clearly the "env --sm-client-id" is causing this problem.  But why is gnome-session saving this incorrect .desktop file for the session?

This is gnome-session-3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1 on Ubuntu Trusty.

Comment 1 André Klapper 2015-07-26 16:46:32 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to report this.

Version 3.9 is an ancient unstable development version and not supported anymore by GNOME developers. GNOME developers are no longer working on that older version, so there will not be any bug fixes by GNOME developers for the version that you use.

Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a recent and supported version of GNOME (3.16 or 3.14), and feel free to file a bug report in the bug tracking system of your Linux distribution if your distribution still supports your version 3.9.