Control: severity -1 minor Control: tags -1 + wontfix On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 18:43:48 +0000, Al Ma wrote: > In my journal I discovered a message that a saved session file could not be > parsed: ... > Mai 17 20:03:29 AnonymizedComputerName org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1049]: Window > manager warning: Failed to parse saved session file: Datei »/var/lib/gdm3 > /.config/mutter/sessions/1012a34d79e815c63f168434660681766700000010100000.ms« > konnte nicht geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
If this isn't implicated in any user-visible problem, then it's almost certainly harmless, and definitely not Severity: important. The gdm display manager runs gnome-shell in a special mode to provide its "greeter" (login prompt) user interface, but there isn't really any state in that session that would be useful to save, so the fact that gdm can't load a saved state is not doing anyone any harm. Arguably the fact that it tries to load a saved session file and logs a message while in this special mode is a minor bug, but gnome-shell is a large, user-facing component with many more users than developers, and as a result, a very large number of bug reports that are more serious than this one. If this offends you, then you could do the research into why this is appearing and send a merge request upstream to silence it; but please bear in mind that even if you take the time to do that, the time needed for a developer to review whether that contribution is correct would be time that they cannot spend on something with a higher impact, like for example diagnosing and fixing a crash. This is unlikely to be fixed as a Debian-specific change. Any change has a risk of causing regressions, so we have to weigh up that risk against the benefit of fixing a bug. If the bug is minor, then the maximum possible benefit is very small, so any risk at all would be a problem. smcv