After last update (xfce-base/thunar (1.8.9(0/3)@23.10.2019)) I was unpleased finding Thunar not started and failing to start at all. Attempt to start it from terminal failed with the following error: Failed to register: Timeout was reached Google search shows such issue known for a time ago. The particular workaround is to reset XFce4 session: $ rm ~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-* I suggest to note it in thunar post-install message.
What was the previous version you were using? I'm all for adding a note but I believe we should aim to make it as precise as possible.
This time for me it was: 1571849273: >>> emerge (58 of 71) xfce-base/thunar-1.8.9 to / 1571849273: === (58 of 71) Cleaning (xfce-base/thunar-1.8.9::/usr/portage/gentoo/xfce-base/thunar/thunar-1.8.9.ebuild) 1571849274: === (58 of 71) Compiling/Merging (xfce-base/thunar-1.8.9::/usr/portage/gentoo/xfce-base/thunar/thunar-1.8.9.ebuild) 1571849346: === (58 of 71) Merging (xfce-base/thunar-1.8.9::/usr/portage/gentoo/xfce-base/thunar/thunar-1.8.9.ebuild) 1571849350: >>> AUTOCLEAN: xfce-base/thunar:0 1571849350: === Unmerging... (xfce-base/thunar-1.6.16-r1) 1571849353: >>> unmerge success: xfce-base/thunar-1.6.16-r1 1571849358: === (58 of 71) Post-Build Cleaning (xfce-base/thunar-1.8.9::/usr/portage/gentoo/xfce-base/thunar/thunar-1.8.9.ebuild) 1571849358: ::: completed emerge (58 of 71) xfce-base/thunar-1.8.9 to / But I've find mentioning of similiar issue for very different version of thunar.
It looks like some commmon profile compatibility issue: I see it on my another Gentoo installation.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=73de01ac007ca6ca293b12bfd039913735b16f2d commit 73de01ac007ca6ca293b12bfd039913735b16f2d Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-11-04 21:03:48 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-11-04 21:08:03 +0000 xfce-base/thunar: Add postinst info for start problems Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/698914 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> xfce-base/thunar/thunar-1.8.9.ebuild | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)