Bug#836170: another reason why this needs to be resolved: warnings are confusing if there is another problem

[Joachim Wuttke]

I get similar messages when starting evince:




This is not only annoying. It can be badly confusing.

Today, at each attempt to start evince, it printed twice the
above message, then crashed. I did not realize that these
messages were not new, but had annoyed me since long. So
naturally, I assumed the cause of the crash to be somehow
related to the messages. This badly diverted me from the
real cause of the crash (/usr/lib/evince/evinced running
as a zombie), which had nothing at all to do with GNOME.
Once the evinced process was killed, I could start evince,
which then printed exactly the same warnings as before,
and worked.

Therefore, maintainers: Please deliver us from these warnings.

Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to get the GNOME session proxy: The name org.gnome.SessionManager is not owned

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