Bug 22601 - Some applications not starting on Gnome 3
Summary: Some applications not starting on Gnome 3
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 6
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: GNOME maintainers
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2018-02-15 20:39 CET by Nicolas Peifer
Modified: 2020-08-16 16:14 CEST (History)
4 users (show)

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Source RPM: gnome-shell-3.24.3-1.mga6.src.rpm
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Description Nicolas Peifer 2018-02-15 20:39:38 CET
Description of problem:
After installing the latest updates (urpmi --auto-update) most applications won't start anymore on my gnome desktop. For example starting Thunderbird or Firefox from the gnome desktop does not work (the applications do not open) - the same outcome when I start them via command line. LibreOffice starts but it takes approximately two minutes until the application is open.

Anyways, some applications start without problems, e. g. Geany and Nautilus.

When I choose "Gnome 3 on Xorg" at the login screen, then everything is fine (firefox, thunderbird and libreoffice are starting normally). So it's probably related to Wayland (because Gnome 3 uses Wayland as default).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Gnome 3.24.3-1


How reproducible:
Just update your system with "urpmi --auto-update" and reboot and login to the default Gnome 3 Shell (on Wayland).
Nicolas Peifer 2018-02-15 20:54:44 CET

Severity: critical => normal

Marja Van Waes 2018-02-16 15:42:43 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => gnome
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2018-02-20 19:57:49 CET
Anything shown when running from the terminal? I thought the Wayland upgrade was tested for GNOME.

CC: (none) => olav

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2018-02-20 20:03:02 CET
(In reply to Olav Vitters from comment #1)
> Anything shown when running from the terminal? I thought the Wayland upgrade
> was tested for GNOME.

Yeah, I'm running the new wayland since February 7th without issues so we need more info...

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 3 Nicolas Peifer 2018-02-20 20:29:54 CET
Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, there is no output on the terminal when launching one of the mentioned applications. The applications seem to hang forever. top does not show any suspicious processes - the CPU is idle all the time. But there is something even more strange: When I close the terminal where I started libreoffice then libreoffice opens (and I can work with it).
Comment 4 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 16:14:34 CEST
Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

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to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to 
a later Mageia version.

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weren't able to fix it before Mageia 6's end of life. If you are able to 
reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click 
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Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => ouaurelien


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