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["Brian J. Murrell" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As you will notice, upstream closed this bug OBSOLETE with the
explanation:

"Version 3.9 is an ancient unstable development version and not supported
anymore by GNOME developers. GNOME developers are no longer working on that
older version, so there will not be any bug fixes by GNOME developers for the
version that you use."

So looks like it's on you Ubuntu/Canonical to fix this as this is a bug
in an LTS release.

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Title:
  invalid session being saved

Status in gnome-session:
  Unknown
Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I log out of my desktop I get some files in ~/.config/gnome-
  session/saved-session/, pressumably the saving of my session so that
  it can be restored on next login.

  But on next login I get an error from gnome-session:

  env: unrecognized option '--sm-client-id'
  Try 'env --help' for more information.
  ...
  gnome-session[9609]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-panel.desktop' failed to register before timeout
  gnome-session[9609]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

  and the session aborts.  Investigation leads to the following:

  $ cat ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/gnome-panel.desktop 
  [Desktop Entry]
  Type=Application
  Name=Panel
  Comment=Launch other applications and provide various utilities to manage windows, show the time, etc.
  Icon=gnome-panel
  Exec=env --sm-client-id 1037b9c00525f898c4143792614760363700000101790000 XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-flashback- gnome-panel
  Terminal=false
  X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
  X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-panel
  X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
  X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.8.0
  Categories=GNOME;GTK;System;Core;
  OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
  NoDisplay=true
  X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
  X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Panel
  X-GNOME-Provides=panel
  X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-panel-3.0
  X-GNOME-Autostart-startup-id=1037b9c00525f898c4143792614760363700000101790000

  Clearly the "env --sm-client-id" is causing this problem.  But why is
  gnome-session saving this incorrect .desktop file for the session?

  This is gnome-session-3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1 on Ubuntu Trusty.

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