[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
This is actualy a two part problem.
Firstly, gnome-session-properties hangs when trying to delete program defined
in /usr/share/autostart from startup program list, because ordinary users don't
have write pemission on these files. strace gives thousands of these lines:
unlink("/usr/share/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop") = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
While it should show an error message and let the user carry on.
Another problem is that user can't disable these startup programs
withous becoming root and moving .desktop files out of the way. I had to
cope with kicker starting alongside gnome-panel for several days and it
was really annoying.
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Thanks for your bug. That works fine for me on gnome-volume-manager by example. What version of gnome-session do you use? Where do you click exactly? -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info Comment: The KDE autostart issue is bug #30849 which is a different topic -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31875 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32003 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: gnome-session 2.13.91-0ubuntu1, but the problem was also aparent in 2.13.90 and earlier 2.13.x releases. I click: Sys => Preferences => Session => Startup Programs => any of progs listed there => Delete And it hangs. It woes in same way when I launch it from terminal, gnome-run, whatever. I can't delete any of the programs from /usr/share/autostart, neither can I delete gnome-volume-manager. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31268 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32192 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32276 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Needs Info => Confirmed Target: None => ubuntu-6.04 Comment: Enough duplicates to confirm -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31269 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32805 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: I think this is related so I am commenting on this bug rather than starting a new one. I cannot delete any of the startup items from the gnome-session-properties GUI. Even if the items where added by me rather than being default items added during install. When i try to delete any item from gnome-session-properties the UI hangs. Also when adding my own startup program I get errors about not being able to write to the already exisiting .desktop files in /usr/share/autostart even though I have not modified those items. I'm running up to date dapper on an iBook G4. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: The only method I have to delete any of the existing items from the gnome-session-properties GUI is to do so manually in /usr/share/autostart. Otherwise, the window completely freezes if 'delete' is selected. I don't understand how it could only be a permission problem when I can add them easily, but just can't remove them in a likewise fashion. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Comment:
This is a bit more complicated, gnome-session-properties is quite broken
currently and I'll try to explain it now.
The first thing is that when gnome-session-properties can't delete appropriate
.desktop file it hangs and needs to be killed by hand. This is very bad, GUI
should pop a nice message up and let the user carry on as. That's what I ment
when I filled this bug.
Let's suppose it does work this way. Unfortunately Joe Average still
won't be able to stop programs declared in /usr/share/autostart from
launching at login. There should be some way to disable them and make
gnome-session ignore them. We can't exept each and every e.g. KDE
package maintaner will remember to declare "OnlyShowIn=KDE;" and vice
versa. That was the second problem
I have also found out that gnome-session-properties doesn't actually write
stuff to ~/.local/share/autostart/*.desktop as it should do when user adds
programs to his startup. It does show on startup programs list, but dissapears
after logout and subsequent login. Trying to delete it hangs g-s-p and strace
gives following message:
unlink("/home/kelner/.local/share/autostart/ps.desktop") = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
so there are 3 related, but separate bugs:
I: gnome-session-properties hangs when it fails to delete .desktop file
II: can't disable startup programs listed in /usr/share/autostart
III: gnome-session doesn't create .desktop files for user-defined startup apps.
II and III both lead to I, but are different issues and IMHO should be treated
as such.
Hope this clarified thing a bit. Guess it confused you a lot more ;)
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 33402 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 33253 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Upstream bug about the hang: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331497 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Bug watches changed: + Bug 331497 [GNOME Bug Tracker] -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Also affects: gnome-session (upstream) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Andrzej, that's one bug you describe, it's just trying to use the wrong directory -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Changed in: gnome-session (upstream) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released Comment: That's fixed upstream -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed Comment: fixed upstream -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released Comment: That upload fixes the issue: gnome-session (2.14.0-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low . * New upstream version: Session Manager - Support old directory for autostart .desktop files - Fix leak - Fix enabling/disabling of autostart services (Ubuntu: #31402) Misc - New splash screen * debian/patches/01_fix_autostart_path.patch: - fixed with the new version * debian/patches/01_fix_autostart_edition.patch: - patch from Vincent Untz, fix the autostart edition Now removing doesn't hang but doesn't do anything neither for non-user .desktop, that's an another issue. The hang is fixed and the enable toggle button works fine too so it makes possible to desactivate a .desktop for the user which fixes the issue. I'm closing the bug, feel free to reopen if you disagree -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
This is actualy a two part problem.
Firstly, gnome-session-properties hangs when trying to delete program defined
in /usr/share/autostart from startup program list, because ordinary users don't
have write pemission on these files. strace gives thousands of these lines:
unlink("/usr/share/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop") = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
While it should show an error message and let the user carry on.
Another problem is that user can't disable these startup programs
withous becoming root and moving .desktop files out of the way. I had to
cope with kicker starting alongside gnome-panel for several days and it
was really annoying.
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Thanks for your bug. That works fine for me on gnome-volume-manager by example. What version of gnome-session do you use? Where do you click exactly? -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info Comment: The KDE autostart issue is bug #30849 which is a different topic -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31875 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32003 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: gnome-session 2.13.91-0ubuntu1, but the problem was also aparent in 2.13.90 and earlier 2.13.x releases. I click: Sys => Preferences => Session => Startup Programs => any of progs listed there => Delete And it hangs. It woes in same way when I launch it from terminal, gnome-run, whatever. I can't delete any of the programs from /usr/share/autostart, neither can I delete gnome-volume-manager. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31268 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32192 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32276 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Needs Info => Confirmed Target: None => ubuntu-6.04 Comment: Enough duplicates to confirm -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31269 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32805 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: I think this is related so I am commenting on this bug rather than starting a new one. I cannot delete any of the startup items from the gnome-session-properties GUI. Even if the items where added by me rather than being default items added during install. When i try to delete any item from gnome-session-properties the UI hangs. Also when adding my own startup program I get errors about not being able to write to the already exisiting .desktop files in /usr/share/autostart even though I have not modified those items. I'm running up to date dapper on an iBook G4. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: The only method I have to delete any of the existing items from the gnome-session-properties GUI is to do so manually in /usr/share/autostart. Otherwise, the window completely freezes if 'delete' is selected. I don't understand how it could only be a permission problem when I can add them easily, but just can't remove them in a likewise fashion. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Comment:
This is a bit more complicated, gnome-session-properties is quite broken
currently and I'll try to explain it now.
The first thing is that when gnome-session-properties can't delete appropriate
.desktop file it hangs and needs to be killed by hand. This is very bad, GUI
should pop a nice message up and let the user carry on as. That's what I ment
when I filled this bug.
Let's suppose it does work this way. Unfortunately Joe Average still
won't be able to stop programs declared in /usr/share/autostart from
launching at login. There should be some way to disable them and make
gnome-session ignore them. We can't exept each and every e.g. KDE
package maintaner will remember to declare "OnlyShowIn=KDE;" and vice
versa. That was the second problem
I have also found out that gnome-session-properties doesn't actually write
stuff to ~/.local/share/autostart/*.desktop as it should do when user adds
programs to his startup. It does show on startup programs list, but dissapears
after logout and subsequent login. Trying to delete it hangs g-s-p and strace
gives following message:
unlink("/home/kelner/.local/share/autostart/ps.desktop") = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
so there are 3 related, but separate bugs:
I: gnome-session-properties hangs when it fails to delete .desktop file
II: can't disable startup programs listed in /usr/share/autostart
III: gnome-session doesn't create .desktop files for user-defined startup apps.
II and III both lead to I, but are different issues and IMHO should be treated
as such.
Hope this clarified thing a bit. Guess it confused you a lot more ;)
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 33253 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Upstream bug about the hang: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331497 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Bug watches changed: + Bug 331497 [GNOME Bug Tracker] -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Also affects: gnome-session (upstream) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Andrzej, that's one bug you describe, it's just trying to use the wrong directory -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Changed in: gnome-session (upstream) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released Comment: That's fixed upstream -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed Comment: fixed upstream -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released Comment: That upload fixes the issue: gnome-session (2.14.0-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low . * New upstream version: Session Manager - Support old directory for autostart .desktop files - Fix leak - Fix enabling/disabling of autostart services (Ubuntu: #31402) Misc - New splash screen * debian/patches/01_fix_autostart_path.patch: - fixed with the new version * debian/patches/01_fix_autostart_edition.patch: - patch from Vincent Untz, fix the autostart edition Now removing doesn't hang but doesn't do anything neither for non-user .desktop, that's an another issue. The hang is fixed and the enable toggle button works fine too so it makes possible to desactivate a .desktop for the user which fixes the issue. I'm closing the bug, feel free to reopen if you disagree -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
This is actualy a two part problem.
Firstly, gnome-session-properties hangs when trying to delete program defined
in /usr/share/autostart from startup program list, because ordinary users don't
have write pemission on these files. strace gives thousands of these lines:
unlink("/usr/share/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop") = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
While it should show an error message and let the user carry on.
Another problem is that user can't disable these startup programs
withous becoming root and moving .desktop files out of the way. I had to
cope with kicker starting alongside gnome-panel for several days and it
was really annoying.
--
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Thanks for your bug. That works fine for me on gnome-volume-manager by example. What version of gnome-session do you use? Where do you click exactly? -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info Comment: The KDE autostart issue is bug #30849 which is a different topic -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31875 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32003 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: gnome-session 2.13.91-0ubuntu1, but the problem was also aparent in 2.13.90 and earlier 2.13.x releases. I click: Sys => Preferences => Session => Startup Programs => any of progs listed there => Delete And it hangs. It woes in same way when I launch it from terminal, gnome-run, whatever. I can't delete any of the programs from /usr/share/autostart, neither can I delete gnome-volume-manager. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31268 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32192 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32276 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Needs Info => Confirmed Target: None => ubuntu-6.04 Comment: Enough duplicates to confirm -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31269 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32805 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: I think this is related so I am commenting on this bug rather than starting a new one. I cannot delete any of the startup items from the gnome-session-properties GUI. Even if the items where added by me rather than being default items added during install. When i try to delete any item from gnome-session-properties the UI hangs. Also when adding my own startup program I get errors about not being able to write to the already exisiting .desktop files in /usr/share/autostart even though I have not modified those items. I'm running up to date dapper on an iBook G4. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: The only method I have to delete any of the existing items from the gnome-session-properties GUI is to do so manually in /usr/share/autostart. Otherwise, the window completely freezes if 'delete' is selected. I don't understand how it could only be a permission problem when I can add them easily, but just can't remove them in a likewise fashion. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Comment:
This is a bit more complicated, gnome-session-properties is quite broken
currently and I'll try to explain it now.
The first thing is that when gnome-session-properties can't delete appropriate
.desktop file it hangs and needs to be killed by hand. This is very bad, GUI
should pop a nice message up and let the user carry on as. That's what I ment
when I filled this bug.
Let's suppose it does work this way. Unfortunately Joe Average still
won't be able to stop programs declared in /usr/share/autostart from
launching at login. There should be some way to disable them and make
gnome-session ignore them. We can't exept each and every e.g. KDE
package maintaner will remember to declare "OnlyShowIn=KDE;" and vice
versa. That was the second problem
I have also found out that gnome-session-properties doesn't actually write
stuff to ~/.local/share/autostart/*.desktop as it should do when user adds
programs to his startup. It does show on startup programs list, but dissapears
after logout and subsequent login. Trying to delete it hangs g-s-p and strace
gives following message:
unlink("/home/kelner/.local/share/autostart/ps.desktop") = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
so there are 3 related, but separate bugs:
I: gnome-session-properties hangs when it fails to delete .desktop file
II: can't disable startup programs listed in /usr/share/autostart
III: gnome-session doesn't create .desktop files for user-defined startup apps.
II and III both lead to I, but are different issues and IMHO should be treated
as such.
Hope this clarified thing a bit. Guess it confused you a lot more ;)
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 33253 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Upstream bug about the hang: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331497 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Bug watches changed: + Bug 331497 [GNOME Bug Tracker] -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Also affects: gnome-session (upstream) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Andrzej, that's one bug you describe, it's just trying to use the wrong directory -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Changed in: gnome-session (upstream) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released Comment: That's fixed upstream -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed Comment: fixed upstream -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released Comment: That upload fixes the issue: gnome-session (2.14.0-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low . * New upstream version: Session Manager - Support old directory for autostart .desktop files - Fix leak - Fix enabling/disabling of autostart services (Ubuntu: #31402) Misc - New splash screen * debian/patches/01_fix_autostart_path.patch: - fixed with the new version * debian/patches/01_fix_autostart_edition.patch: - patch from Vincent Untz, fix the autostart edition Now removing doesn't hang but doesn't do anything neither for non-user .desktop, that's an another issue. The hang is fixed and the enable toggle button works fine too so it makes possible to desactivate a .desktop for the user which fixes the issue. I'm closing the bug, feel free to reopen if you disagree -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
This is actualy a two part problem.
Firstly, gnome-session-properties hangs when trying to delete program defined
in /usr/share/autostart from startup program list, because ordinary users don't
have write pemission on these files. strace gives thousands of these lines:
unlink("/usr/share/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop") = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
While it should show an error message and let the user carry on.
Another problem is that user can't disable these startup programs
withous becoming root and moving .desktop files out of the way. I had to
cope with kicker starting alongside gnome-panel for several days and it
was really annoying.
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Thanks for your bug. That works fine for me on gnome-volume-manager by example. What version of gnome-session do you use? Where do you click exactly? -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info Comment: The KDE autostart issue is bug #30849 which is a different topic -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31875 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32003 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: gnome-session 2.13.91-0ubuntu1, but the problem was also aparent in 2.13.90 and earlier 2.13.x releases. I click: Sys => Preferences => Session => Startup Programs => any of progs listed there => Delete And it hangs. It woes in same way when I launch it from terminal, gnome-run, whatever. I can't delete any of the programs from /usr/share/autostart, neither can I delete gnome-volume-manager. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31268 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32192 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32276 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Needs Info => Confirmed Target: None => ubuntu-6.04 Comment: Enough duplicates to confirm -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 31269 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 32805 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: I think this is related so I am commenting on this bug rather than starting a new one. I cannot delete any of the startup items from the gnome-session-properties GUI. Even if the items where added by me rather than being default items added during install. When i try to delete any item from gnome-session-properties the UI hangs. Also when adding my own startup program I get errors about not being able to write to the already exisiting .desktop files in /usr/share/autostart even though I have not modified those items. I'm running up to date dapper on an iBook G4. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: The only method I have to delete any of the existing items from the gnome-session-properties GUI is to do so manually in /usr/share/autostart. Otherwise, the window completely freezes if 'delete' is selected. I don't understand how it could only be a permission problem when I can add them easily, but just can't remove them in a likewise fashion. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Comment:
This is a bit more complicated, gnome-session-properties is quite broken
currently and I'll try to explain it now.
The first thing is that when gnome-session-properties can't delete appropriate
.desktop file it hangs and needs to be killed by hand. This is very bad, GUI
should pop a nice message up and let the user carry on as. That's what I ment
when I filled this bug.
Let's suppose it does work this way. Unfortunately Joe Average still
won't be able to stop programs declared in /usr/share/autostart from
launching at login. There should be some way to disable them and make
gnome-session ignore them. We can't exept each and every e.g. KDE
package maintaner will remember to declare "OnlyShowIn=KDE;" and vice
versa. That was the second problem
I have also found out that gnome-session-properties doesn't actually write
stuff to ~/.local/share/autostart/*.desktop as it should do when user adds
programs to his startup. It does show on startup programs list, but dissapears
after logout and subsequent login. Trying to delete it hangs g-s-p and strace
gives following message:
unlink("/home/kelner/.local/share/autostart/ps.desktop") = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
so there are 3 related, but separate bugs:
I: gnome-session-properties hangs when it fails to delete .desktop file
II: can't disable startup programs listed in /usr/share/autostart
III: gnome-session doesn't create .desktop files for user-defined startup apps.
II and III both lead to I, but are different issues and IMHO should be treated
as such.
Hope this clarified thing a bit. Guess it confused you a lot more ;)
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 *** Bug 33253 has been marked a duplicate of this bug *** -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Upstream bug about the hang: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331497 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Bug watches changed: + Bug 331497 [GNOME Bug Tracker] -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Also affects: gnome-session (upstream) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Andrzej, that's one bug you describe, it's just trying to use the wrong directory -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Changed in: gnome-session (upstream) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released Comment: That's fixed upstream -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed Comment: fixed upstream -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released Comment: That upload fixes the issue: gnome-session (2.14.0-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low . * New upstream version: Session Manager - Support old directory for autostart .desktop files - Fix leak - Fix enabling/disabling of autostart services (Ubuntu: #31402) Misc - New splash screen * debian/patches/01_fix_autostart_path.patch: - fixed with the new version * debian/patches/01_fix_autostart_edition.patch: - patch from Vincent Untz, fix the autostart edition Now removing doesn't hang but doesn't do anything neither for non-user .desktop, that's an another issue. The hang is fixed and the enable toggle button works fine too so it makes possible to desactivate a .desktop for the user which fixes the issue. I'm closing the bug, feel free to reopen if you disagree -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402
Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
This is actualy a two part problem.
Firstly, gnome-session-properties hangs when trying to delete program defined
in /usr/share/autostart from startup program list, because ordinary users don't
have write pemission on these files. strace gives thousands of these lines:
unlink("/usr/share/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop") = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
While it should show an error message and let the user carry on.
Another problem is that user can't disable these startup programs
withous becoming root and moving .desktop files out of the way. I had to
cope with kicker starting alongside gnome-panel for several days and it
was really annoying.
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[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Comment: Thanks for your bug. That works fine for me on gnome-volume-manager by example. What version of gnome-session do you use? Where do you click exactly? -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31402 Task: ubuntu gnome-session Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info Comment: The KDE autostart issue is bug #30849 which is a different topic -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 31402] gnome-session properties hangs, when writing to files it doesn't have permisions to modify
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