Package: gnome-session-bin Version: 3.21.90-1 Followup-For: Bug #835289 Dear Maintainer, The issue boils down to a bashism that is >& . x-session-manager ends up on /usr/bin/gnome-session . Editing this file and setting the shell from sh (dash here) to bash or replacing ">& /dev/null" by " 2>&1 > /dev/null " fixes the issue.
Best regards Alban -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-rc2prahal+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnome-session-bin depends on: ii dbus-x11 1.11.4-1 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.21.4-1 ii libc6 2.23-5 ii libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11] 12.0.1-3 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 12.0.1-3 ii libgles2-mesa [libgles2] 12.0.1-3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.49.5-2 ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.20.2-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.21.4-1 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.2.2-1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libsystemd0 231-5 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1 ii upower 0.99.4-3 ii xwayland 2:1.18.4-1 Versions of packages gnome-session-bin recommends: ii libpam-systemd 231-5 gnome-session-bin suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/bin/gnome-session (from gnome-session-bin package)