Bug 580692 – sys-apps/dbus-1.10.8-r1 makes systray legacy icons inavailable

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Billy DeVincentis 2016-04-20 23:31:03 UTC]

Applications that use older style systray icons do not appear, example vmware-workstation and apcupsd. Downgrading to 1.10.6 corrects the problem.

[Comment 1 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2016-04-21 14:58:28 UTC]

Do you use prelink?

[Comment 2 Billy DeVincentis 2016-04-21 20:21:14 UTC]

No I do not.

[Comment 3 zlg (RETIRED) 2016-06-16 23:45:47 UTC]

The same thing's happening to me. However, by downgrading to 1.10.6, I can't build anything that depends on dbus anymore because it complains about a versioned symbol. PulseAudio in particular is picky about this. So I have to choose between Steam having a tray icon and the ability to update software that depends on dbus.

[Comment 4 Billy DeVincentis 2016-07-03 13:34:30 UTC]

Okay,
I have some very interesting new info with this problem. With sys-apps/dbus-1.10.8-r1 installed and my system fully rebuilt, I get icons for all legacy apps I have installed (vmware-workstation and apcupsd) but only following a second login. First login will not show the icons leading me to believe that some service is not getting started.

[Comment 5 Billy DeVincentis 2016-08-22 01:59:59 UTC]

And now I have the reason why this wa happening but it still is a problem. In System Settings, GTK Style, If clearlooks is selected as gtk2 theme, legacy icons only appear after 2nd login. If oxygen-gtk is selected as gtk2 theme, all works as normal. My tests are repeatable.

[Comment 6 Azamat H. Hackimov 2016-08-22 08:53:15 UTC]

Can you look dmesg output, is there xembedsniproxy segfault messages when using clearlooks?

[Comment 7 Billy DeVincentis 2016-08-25 01:51:23 UTC]

May have spoken too soon, seems like it is still happening regardless of the theme. I don't see anything in dmesg but I am attaching it here. Maybe you can find something. In any event, 2nd login always works perfect.

[Comment 8 Billy DeVincentis 2016-08-25 01:51:50 UTC]

Created attachment 444068 [details]
dmesg

[Comment 9 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-03-04 19:18:29 UTC]

Is this still a thing? Do you have consolekit/dbus in default runlevel?

[Comment 10 zlg (RETIRED) 2017-03-05 07:34:51 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #9)
> Is this still a thing? Do you have consolekit/dbus in default runlevel?

The program I was having this problem with the most was Steam. Ever since I switched to AnyC's steam-overlay and used games-util/steam-meta + games-util/esteam to update dependencies, the tray icon works as expected. I do have consolekit and dbus in my default runlevel, but they were there when I originally had the problem, too. Perhaps the bug was silently fixed in an update.

[Comment 11 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-03-05 09:28:25 UTC]

Thanks for checking back.