Bug#1040920: gnome-flashback: Gnome flashback unsets XDG_SESSION_ID

[Alberts Muktupāvels]

GNOME Flashback does not do that!

That variable is blacklisted by gnome-session:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/blob/main/gnome-session/gsm-util.c#L38

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 2:51 PM Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:

> Package: gnome-flashback
> Version: 3.46.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> When starting a Gnome Flashback session, the XDG_SESSION_ID environment
> variable is not set. This results on applications that rely on logind to
> not behave properly.
>
> Debugging this more closely, I found that XDG_SESSION_ID is still
> set in ~/.xsession, but seemingly disappears somewhere in this call:
>
> exec gnome-session --systemd --session=gnome-flashback
> --disable-acceleration-check
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 12.0
>   APT prefers stable-security
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
> TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
> not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages gnome-flashback depends on:
> ii  gnome-flashback-common     3.46.0-1
> ii  libasound2                 1.2.8-1+b1
> ii  libatk1.0-0                2.46.0-5
> ii  libc6                      2.36-9
> ii  libcairo2                  1.16.0-7
> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0         0.30-10
> ii  libcanberra0               0.30-10
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0        2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1
> ii  libgdm1                    43.0-3
> ii  libglib2.0-0               2.74.6-2
> ii  libgnome-bluetooth-3.0-13  42.5-3
> ii  libgnome-desktop-3-20      43.2-2
> ii  libgnome-panel0            3.46.0-1+b1
> ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.24.37-2
> ii  libibus-1.0-5              1.5.27-5
> ii  libpam0g                   1.5.2-6
> ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.50.12+ds-1
> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.50.12+ds-1
> ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0        122-3
> ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      122-3
> ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0    16.1+dfsg1-2+b1
> ii  libpulse0                  16.1+dfsg1-2+b1
> ii  libsystemd0                252.6-1
> ii  libx11-6                   2:1.8.4-2+deb12u1
> ii  libx11-xcb1                2:1.8.4-2+deb12u1
> ii  libxcb-randr0              1.15-1
> ii  libxext6                   2:1.3.4-1+b1
> ii  libxfixes3                 1:6.0.0-2
> ii  libxi6                     2:1.8-1+b1
> ii  libxkbfile1                1:1.1.0-1
> ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.5.2-2+b1
> ii  libxxf86vm1                1:1.1.4-1+b2
> ii  nautilus                   43.2-1
>
> Versions of packages gnome-flashback recommends:
> ii  dbus                   1.14.6-1
> ii  gnome-settings-daemon  43.0-4
> ii  libpam-gnome-keyring   42.1-1+b2
>
> Versions of packages gnome-flashback suggests:
> pn  gnome-power-manager  <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>

-- 
Alberts Muktupāvels
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