Bug#787218: gnome-session-failed tried to wreck my X session

[Daniel Pocock]

Package: gnome-session-bin
Version: 3.14.0-2
Severity: serious

I clicked the desktop chooser at the bottom right hand corner to try and
go to another desktop

The screen went light grey with a message in the middle telling me
"Something went wrong" and with a log out button

Instead of clicking this button, I pressed Alt-F1 and logged in as root
on a text console and looked through my process table

I saw this binary in the ps output:

     /usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-failed --allow-logout

I killed it and then went back to X and my desktop was still there, my
windows still open, the "Something went wrong" thing gone.

Therefore, I think this gnome-session-failed thing is unstable and I'm
thinking about deleting it from the system so it won't happen again.

I never saw this before updating to jessie