I get "E: Efreet did not update cache. Please check your Efreet setup" as a GUI dialog after logging into E. I very much think these two issues are related/the same: Most applications have icons (when opening Everything launcher), but parcellite for example does not. It has its icons under /usr/share/pixmaps (and only there): $ equery f parcellite * Searching for parcellite ... * Contents of x11-misc/parcellite-1.2.1: /etc /etc/xdg /etc/xdg/autostart /etc/xdg/autostart/parcellite-startup.desktop /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/parcellite /usr/share /usr/share/applications /usr/share/applications/parcellite.desktop /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/parcellite-1.2.1 /usr/share/doc/parcellite-1.2.1/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/parcellite-1.2.1/ChangeLog.bz2 /usr/share/doc/parcellite-1.2.1/NEWS /usr/share/doc/parcellite-1.2.1/README.bz2 /usr/share/doc/parcellite-1.2.1/TODO.bz2 /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/parcellite.1.bz2 /usr/share/pixmaps /usr/share/pixmaps/parcellite.png /usr/share/pixmaps/parcellite.svg /usr/share/pixmaps/parcellite.xpm Most other applications have their icons below /usr/share/icons/<theme>/<size>/apps/ like firefox-bin for example. If I do a simple $ ln -s /usr/share/pixmaps/parcellite.svg ~/.icons/ (without a restart, logout, whatever) I instantly get an icon for parcellite. Which is pretty strange, given that the original icon in /usr/share/pixmaps does get indexed by the efreet cache builder anyway: $ eet -d ~/.cache/efreet/icons___efreet_fallback_$HOSTNAME.eet parcellite group "Efreet_Cache_Fallback_Icon" struct { group "icons" var_array { count 3; value "icons" string: "/usr/share/pixmaps/parcellite.svg"; value "icons" string: "/usr/share/pixmaps/parcellite.png"; value "icons" string: "/usr/share/pixmaps/parcellite.xpm"; } } I already tried removing the efreet cache and rebuilding it, which works without issues it seems: $ /usr/lib64/efreet/v-1.21/efreet_icon_cache_create -e .png .xvg .xpm -v INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:842 main() opening theme cache INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:891 main() scan for themes INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:921 main() scan theme Hicolor INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:927 main() open icon file INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:964 main() scan icons INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:973 main() generated: 'hicolor' 1 (115) INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:980 main() theme change: hicolor 1543854326 INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:921 main() scan theme Default INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:927 main() open icon file INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:964 main() scan icons INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:973 main() generated: 'default' 1 (950) INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:980 main() theme change: default 1532270631 INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:921 main() scan theme HighContrast INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:927 main() open icon file INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:964 main() scan icons INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:973 main() generated: 'HighContrast' 1 (115) INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:980 main() theme change: HighContrast 1543854326 INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:921 main() scan theme Adwaita INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:927 main() open icon file INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:964 main() scan icons INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:973 main() generated: 'Adwaita' 1 (950) INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:980 main() theme change: Adwaita 1543854326 INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:995 main() scan fallback icons INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:1005 main() open fallback file INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:1049 main() scan fallback icons INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:1056 main() generated: fallback 1 (58) c INF<14870>:efreet_icon_cache bin/efreet/efreet_icon_cache_create.c:1092 main() done $ /usr/lib64/efreet/v-1.21/efreet_desktop_cache_create -v [..] INF<14875>:efreet_desktop_cache bin/efreet/efreet_desktop_cache_create.c:55 cache_add() FOUND: /usr/share/applications/parcellite.desktop INF<14875>:efreet_desktop_cache bin/efreet/efreet_desktop_cache_create.c:56 cache_add() (id): parcellite.desktop INF<14875>:efreet_desktop_cache bin/efreet/efreet_desktop_cache_create.c:60 cache_add() OK INF<14875>:efreet_desktop_cache bin/efreet/efreet_desktop_cache_create.c:67 cache_add() NEW [..] I don't know how to proceed. Is this a gentoo or an upstream bug? Can someone reproduce this on dev-libs/efl-1.21.1 and x11-wm/enlightenment-0.22.3 or .4 (does not matter here)? I'd like to have parcellite as a startup application, which worked flawlessly up until some recent efl or enlightenment update. But it won't start although it is configured to do so. I cannot fix this with the logo in ~/.icons so this might not be related. Related to #671876
So I installed parcellite and it shows icon when ran from "Everything launcher". Do you have some custom .desktop file for it, which looks for icon from ~ or something? Also could you show your efl USE flags? Then 2nd thing: Some time ago (I believe in e-0.22.3) Enlightenment-WM dropped support for xembed systray apps. Does parcellite launch itself to systray? You may need to install some external systray app capable of showing old-school xembed apps. Or play with panel settings trying to get systray to work there. I realized this because I ran parcellite from terminal but it doesnt show anywhere, it still seems to work from and in terminal. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Enlightenment#Applications_requiring_system_tray_not_working_properly
Created attachment 650430 [details, diff] Patch to for x11-wm/enlightenment-0.24 /etc/portage/patches/x11-wm/enlightenment/enlightenment-0.24.1.patch
I'm running into the same situation, I was able to circumvent the problem by increasing the timeout (from 10 seconds to 60 seconds) that e_startup uses when waiting for efreetd to start. The real question is why is efreetd taking so long to start.
I haven't ran into this, if you backup your ~/.e and ~/.elementary directories, then move/delete them and relog, does it help?
I think I solved this by removing the consolekit USE flag (currently not at my box). And then I haven't reported back - shame on me.. Do you still get this error with a current version built with elogind (which seems to be the way to go as it seems)? Removing the consolekit USE flag or building a more current version with elogind also fixed the application not getting started. Can you reproduce this? Maybe the additional time helps to not run into a timeout waiting for some consolekit/elogind-like daemon? I think I remember not using slim/lightdm to login but using startx from a console also helped.