Could not parse desktop file /home/oem/.local/share/applications/compiz.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary

Bug #1160197 reported by dino99
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Ubuntu GNOME
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Bug Description

when i'm login into ubuntu (unity) on RR i386 + gnome3-team ppa, i get these gnome-session-errors logged:

gnome-session[26955]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/oem/.local/share/applications/compiz.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
gnome-session[26955]: WARNING: could not read /home/oem/.local/share/applications/compiz.desktop
gnome-session[26955]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-sound-applet.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
gnome-session[26955]: WARNING: could not read /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-sound-applet.desktop
gnome-session[26955]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-fallback-mount-helper.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
gnome-session[26955]: WARNING: could not read /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-fallback-mount-helper.desktop
gnome-session[26955]: WARNING: Failed isActive call to ConsoleKit: Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.66" (uid=1000 pid=26955 comm="gnome-session --session=ubuntu ") interface="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" member="IsActive" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.19" (uid=0 pid=2102 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon ")
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

note: i need to run "compiz --replace ccp &" to get the launcher and the icons, otherwise its only and empty desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-session-bin 3.7.92-0ubuntu1~raring1 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-14.24-generic 3.8.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-14-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 26 07:13:12 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-session
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :
description: updated
Revision history for this message
dino99 (9d9) wrote :

was due to empty .desktop file inside .local/share/applications/...
now /usr/share/applications/... is used

Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
status: New → Fix Released
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