gnome-session-properties cannot remove sessions

[Reinhard Tartler]

Steps to reproduce:

- start gnome-session-properties
- tab: session options
- add a new session
- try to remove it doesn't work because the button remains disabled

[jon latorre (moebius-etxea)]

I also have problems with gnome-session-properties. If I try to delete an application from "Satrtup Programs" tabs gnome-session-properties freezes.

[Miguel Martinez (el-quark)]

I can confirm that the "Startup Programs" freeze also happens on my system. Also, CPU usage rises to 100%. If I restart gnome-session-properties the application that I tried to remove is gone.

Steps to follow:
- Start gnome-session-properties
- tab: startup programs
- delete a listed program (can be a recently created one)

It is a breezy install dist-upgraded to dapper. Forcing a reinstall of the gnome-sessions package will not solve this. Deleting $HOME/.gconf* and $HOME/.gnome* config folders also doesn't solve this.

Machine is a Dell Inspiron 8600.

[Miguel Martinez (el-quark)]

I can confirm original poster's bug. Added sessions can't be deleted. System as above post, dist-upgraded the morning of 22-2.

Terminal output from launching gnome-session-manager is:

miguel@lcpybm:~$ gnome-session-properties

** (gnome-session-properties:8030): WARNING **: Could not save /usr/share/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop file

** (gnome-session-properties:8030): WARNING **: Could not save /usr/share/autostart/gnome-volume-manager.desktop file

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

this seems to be related if not duplicate of
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/32276

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

duplicate of #31402 in fact