Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) reached end-of-life on July 20, 2017.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed. ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1628179 Title: gnome-session does not show version info Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Following command has no output. $ gnome-session --version However, help says, $ gnome-session --help Usage: gnome-session-binary [OPTION...] - the GNOME session manager Help Options: -h, --help Show help options Application Options: -a, --autostart=AUTOSTART_DIR Override standard autostart directories --session=SESSION_NAME Session to use --debug Enable debugging code -f, --failsafe Do not load user-specified applications --version Version of this application --whale Show the fail whale dialog for testing --disable-acceleration-check Disable hardware acceleration check Also, in man, there in no entry for gnome-session. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1628179/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

