Startup Applications not working after upgrade to Karmic

[Colin Law]

On 15 February 2010 17:04, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 15 February 2010 12:56, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have upgraded a 9.04 desktop system to 9.10 and now entries I have
>> added to System, Preferences, Startup Applications no longer start.
>> These are to thunderbird and gpodder.  They work fine if I manually
>> start them.
>> I have looked in various log files for clues but found none.
>>
>> I have another 9.10 (clean install) where the startup apps work ok.
>>
>> Any suggestions as to what the problem may be or where to look for
>> clues gratefully received.
>
> Further to this I have looked in ~/.config/autostart and find .desktop
> files for the apps, which work as expected when I open them.  It
> appears that for some reason the apps in autostart are not getting
> started on logon.
>
> In addition I find that if I select "Automatically remember running
> applications when logged out" and then logout with some running apps
> they do not open when I log in again, so it appears the whole
> autostart system is broken in some way.
>
> I have found a bug in launchpad that can cause changes to the startup
> apps not to be saved, but not one that prevents them starting.

Some more information, I tried purging gnome-session and re-installing
with no effect.

I created a new user and find that all works fine for the new user, so
it is something specific to the one user.

Has anyone any suggestions what I can do to progress this?

Colin