ubuntu-session should depend on ubuntu-desktop metapackage

[Nicolás Abel Carbone]

After the updates of August 16th or 17th, I cannot login to the ubuntu
session. After entering my credentials, it goes right back to gdm,
without any error message. GNOME session works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ubuntu-session 3.24.1-0ubuntu20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Aug 17 12:07:05 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-27 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170723)
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Nicolás Abel Carbone (nicocarbone)]

Added gdm log

[Nicolás Abel Carbone (nicocarbone)]

I found the issue. It was mainly me, but i think something is still missing.
As I was updating from early ubuntu GNOME, the ubuntu-desktop metapackage wasn't installed, causing the ubuntu session to silently fail.
I think that ubuntu-session should depend on ubuntu-desktop.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.