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** Changed in: gnome-session
       Status: Unknown => Expired

** Changed in: gnome-session
   Importance: Unknown => Critical

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Title:
  invalid session being saved

Status in gnome-session:
  Expired
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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