startup applications overwrites entries

Bug #1531292 reported by Duckshavings
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

When using the startup applications GUI, scripts with the same file name but different paths will overwrite each other. For instance, if I added an entry as:
Name: program1
Command: /home/user/scripts/program1/run
Comment: program 1

I can exit the startup applications window and everything saves fine.

But if I later reopen and add an entry:
Name: program2
Command: /home/user/scripts/program2/run
Comment: program 2

both records will display on the main menu, but after closing and reopening the window, only program2 will be listed. The record for program2 overwrites the record for program1 when the startup applications window closes, but it looks like it works fine before you close it. If I named my script for program2, 'run2', as in: '/home/user/scripts/program2/run2', both records will be kept.

Additional info:------------------------------
apt-cache policy gnome-session-bin
gnome-session-bin:
  Installed: 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1
  Candidate: 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.9.90-0ubuntu12 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-session-bin 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt19
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-55-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jan 5 16:13:00 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-07 (29 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Duckshavings (telgin6464) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Duckshavings (telgin6464) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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