Bug 739506 – xfce-base/xfconf fails all tests: xfconfd is not running and can not be autostarted

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2020-08-29 15:56:34 UTC]

FAIL: t-set-string
FAIL: t-set-arrayv
FAIL: t-set-boolean
FAIL: t-set-stringlist
FAIL: t-set-double
FAIL: t-set-uint64
FAIL: t-set-int
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Testsuite summary for xfconf 4.14.3
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# TOTAL: 7
# PASS:  0
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  7

Error is always:

** (process:706): CRITICAL **: 17:48:37.703: xfconfd is not running and can not be autostarted

[Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2020-11-17 21:30:57 UTC]

Same for 4.14.4.

[Comment 2 Sam James 2020-11-18 00:41:58 UTC]

Is this with dbus running beforehand? I've noticed some things (mostly GNOME?) fail when I don't start it up.

This is how I do it: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC#Chroot_support

[Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2020-11-18 21:18:23 UTC]

Dbus is running when tests are failing.

[Comment 4 Sam James 2021-01-18 20:26:14 UTC]

Reproduced, needs itself to be installed. Probably PATH.

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2021-01-19 09:42:06 UTC]

I could reproduce with 4.14.4 in clean chroot but can't with 4.16.0.  Upstream has introduced a custom test driver that takes care of starting and stopping xfconfd, so that probably resolved the problem.  Could you confirm that 4.16.0 works fine?  I will stabilize it in 3 weeks or so.