Bug 426651 - Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
Summary: Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 471980
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: metacity
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-23 18:52 UTC by Bruce Brackbill
Modified: 2014-06-18 09:09 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-12-18 05:29:52 UTC
Type: ---
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Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/janda/.config/metacity/sessions/10f262ea86e3f05ec6125065026953922400000018910023.ms: Failed to open file '/home/janda/.config/metacity/s (276.02 KB, text/plain)
2009-08-19 06:25 UTC, Janda
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
GNOME Bugzilla 485751 0 None None None Never
GNOME Bugzilla 552387 0 None None None Never
Launchpad 150721 0 None None None Never

Description Bruce Brackbill 2007-12-23 18:52:38 UTC
Description of problem:
When booting up i get the error message:
SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/2197,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2197
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
/home/bruce/.metacity/sessions/default1.ms: Failed to open file
'/home/bruce/.metacity/sessions/default1.ms': No such file or directory
13

(gnome-panel:2318): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
`G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Distribution: Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Gnome Release: 2.20.2 2007-11-27 (Red Hat, Inc)
System: Linux 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: Enforcing
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Nodoka
Icon Theme: Fedora

How reproducible:

Boot up and the error occurs

Comment 1 petrosyan 2008-11-05 18:32:00 UTC
this bug is still present in Fedora rawhide.

Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/fedora/.config/metacity/sessions/108c8dbd2c642634de122590948877602100000015520008.ms: Failed to open file '/home/fedora/.config/metacity/sessions/108c8dbd2c642634de122590948877602100000015520008.ms': No such file or directory

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:04:30 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 Edward Kuns 2008-11-30 22:41:43 UTC
I started seeing this after upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10.  At every login, my .xsession-errors file has the complaint:

Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/ekuns/.config/metacity/sessions/10ac181c8817043ef8122806581017838800000034350023.ms: Failed to open file '/home/ekuns/.config/metacity/sessions/10ac181c8817043ef8122806581017838800000034350023.ms': No such file or directory

Trying to manually save a session does not help.  (System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions, go to Options tab, click "Remember Currently Running Application")  Doing this, running applications such as gnome-termainal are not restarted at my next login.

Note:  The directory ~/.config/metacity does not exist.

I did not have this problem under Fedora 8.

Comment 4 Edward Kuns 2008-12-02 01:07:20 UTC
What additional information can I gather to get some movement on this bug?

Comment 5 Edward Kuns 2008-12-17 02:31:56 UTC
Is anybody listening?  What information is needed?  It's really annoying to have to start all of my applications (such as gnome-terminal) each time I log in.  How can I help advance this bug?

Comment 6 Edward Kuns 2008-12-18 03:36:57 UTC
Note:  I try to save my session by clicking on System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Session, then going to the options tab, then clicking on "Remember Currently Running Application" (sic), and I get the following complaint in .xsession-errors:

gnome-session-properties:7140): DEBUG: Session saving is not implemented yet!

Didn't this used to work?

Comment 7 Edward Kuns 2008-12-18 04:14:29 UTC
With further searching, I found the following bug at gnome buzgilla.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552387

and I have linked it above.  It looks like Gnome 2.24 was deliberately and knowingly released with this enormous regression.  I'm surprised that more people are not reporting this.

Comment 8 Edward Kuns 2008-12-18 04:29:25 UTC
It looks like this should be marked redundant to Bug 471980.

Comment 9 Alex Lancaster 2008-12-18 05:29:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> It looks like this should be marked redundant to Bug 471980.

Closing as per above.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 471980 ***

Comment 10 Janda 2009-08-19 06:25:39 UTC
Created attachment 357893 [details]
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/janda/.config/metacity/sessions/10f262ea86e3f05ec6125065026953922400000018910023.ms: Failed to open file '/home/janda/.config/metacity/s

I am a newbie, I do not know how to describe the attachment.


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