[xubuntu-users] Error in .xsession-errors after upgrade to 21.04 - due to Wayland?

[Alex Johns]

On 16/05/21 8:19 am, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 06:36:27AM +1200, Alex Johns wrote:
>> On 15/05/21 11:07 pm, Chris Green wrote:
>>> I'm seeing the following errors in .xsession-errors on my recently
>>> upgraded to 21.04 xubuntu system:-
>>>
>>> dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
>>
>>>       dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0
>>>       dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/chris/.Xauthority
>>>       /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources: line 16: has_option: command not found
>>>       /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch: line 9: has_option: command not found
>>>       gpgconf: running /usr/bin/gpg-agent failed (exitcode=2): General error
>>>       gpgconf: fatal error (exit status 1)
>>>       dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
>>>       /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent: line 9: has_option: command not found
>>>       dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHELL=/bin/bash
>>>       dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
>>>
>>>
>>> The 'setting' lines are as expected but not 'has_option:  command not
>>> found' nor the gpgconf one.  I don't see any of these errors on my
>>> other system which is still running 20.10.
>>>
>>>
>>> Looking at the X configuration in /etc/X11 I see that the has_option()
>>> function has been moved and (obviously) for some reason the place it
>>> has been moved to is either not being run at all or isn't being run
>>> before the function is used.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've searched and can't find any references to has_option() errors,
>>> should I report it as a bug and, if so, where?
>>>
>> Is it worth using Synaptic and the fix broken option?
>> I know there are still issues with NVIDIA cards and Wayland, so much so with
>> my system I had to nuke it and do a reinstall from a usb key, after removing
>> the .cache and .config files from my ~/ directory.
>> Also with the terminal is it worth copying the bashrc files over from the
>> unbroken system?
>>
> The system works OK, I'm just wondering whether to report the errors.
> 
I would, as it helps the Dev's to sort out these issues.  To be fair I 
have now moved to Ubuntu-Mate as I was getting too many funny things 
happening with Xubuntu on my latest lappy.
cheers