12.04 precise cannot restore previous session

[likes2skate]

Hey,

I installed 12.04 on a different hard drive, and copied the home files from the 10.04 install drive into the home directory of the 12.04 drive.

Now it seems the session manager is stuck on a session from a couple of days ago.

I put before and after screen shots here:

before logging out:
http://www.advanced-app.com.hk/MiscJ...ore_logout.png

after logging back in:
http://www.advanced-app.com.hk/MiscJ...ng_back_in.png

My rekonq browser is stuck on a problem I solved a couple of days ago (by putting "acpi=force" in grub.conf).

I have deleted files and directories in tmp. In my home directory, I have recursively made sure all files and directories are owned by me and writable by me.

Any suggestions? I do not want to be looking at the "after" session (from several days ago) for the next two years!

Thanks,

[SteveRiley]

I am a little unclear of what your problem is. How are sessions and browsers related?

[SteveRiley]

Oh, I think I know what you mean now. What if you change the Session Manager to start empty and then reboot -- do you get a clean desktop? Does Rekonq open empty?

Next, open the windows you want, then change the Session Manager to manually saved and follow Leave | Save Session. When you return, do you see what you expect, or something older?

Now, if you finally switch the Session Manager to restore previous, does it behave normally?

[likes2skate]

12.04 precise still cannot restore previous session

I still have the problem.

> What if you change the Session Manager to start empty and then reboot -- do you get a clean desktop?

Yes

> Does Rekonq open empty?

Yes

> Next, open the windows you want, then change the Session Manager to manually saved and follow Leave | Save Session. When you return, do you see what you expect, or something older?

I see the session that I saved.

> Now, if you finally switch the Session Manager to restore previous, does it behave normally?

No; it remembers a more recent session, but it still does not restore the session as it was when I logged out. I have gone through several cycles as follows: change things, log out, log back in. It is stuck on a particular session; it still cannot restore the previous session

Thanks,

[SteveRiley]

Change the Session Manager back to empty. Log out/log in/log out.

Then, outside KDE -- that is, while KDM is visible -- switch to a console TTY. Next:

rm ~/.kde/share/config/session/*
rm ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc
sudo reboot

Now can you recreate the behavior you wish?

[likes2skate]

Now can you recreate the behavior you wish?

Not yet. I went through the steps, and opened kubuntuforums.net in rekonq. I logged out, logged back in, and kubuntuforums.net was there. But if I put rekonq on anything else, log out and log back in, anything else is not there -- rekonq is stuck on kubuntuforums.net.

I would appreciate additional troubleshooting help.

Thanks,

[SteveRiley]

I am, at this point, out of ideas to suggest. I haven't Googled for anything yet, though.

However, I do need to ask an obvious, and probably silly, question: In Configure Rekonq | General | Startup, what have you chosen for When starting Rekonq?

[likes2skate]

However, I do need to ask an obvious, and probably silly, question: In Configure Rekonq | General | Startup, what have you chosen for When starting Rekonq?

Actually, I had not chosen anything -- I did not know the setting existed. I was expecting rekonq to act like konq.

The setting was "open the new tab page". Moments ago, I changed it to "restore the last opened tabs". I opened a page other than kubuntuforums.net, logged out, logged back in, but got kubuntuforums.net.

[SteveRiley]

At this point, it's worth creating a new user account and then conducting some tests to see whether the behavior persists.

[likes2skate]

I think this is definitely a bug.

I created a new user account. I went in, and put rekonq on python documentation for version 2.7. I exited, went back in, and rekonq came up on the python documentation for version 2.7 (so far, so good). I put rekonq on python documentation for version 3.2. I exited, went back in, and rekonq came up on the python documentation for version 2.7 (WRONG!)

[likes2skate]

Upgrading from 0.9 to 1.0 fixed the problem. (1.0 is in backports under kubuntu 12.04.) Thanks to SteveRiley for the link:

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...l=1#post304505

[steve7233]

Actually, I had not chosen anything -- I did not know the setting existed. I was expecting rekonq to act like konq.

The setting was "open the new tab page". Moments ago, I changed it to "restore the last opened tabs". I opened a page other than kubuntuforums.net, logged out, logged back in, but got kubuntuforums.net.

This must be a bug in 12.04 because I have the exact saame problem with Firefox set to restore last tabs and windows! I have some other strange behavior like kubuntu not restoring previous session even though its set to restore the last session and if i close a firefox window then all firefox windows close! The application list shows x number of applications running but dosn't list all of them! I am thinking this might all be related to the same bug, but what is the bug?