Bug 698914 – xfce-base/thunar-1.8.9 fails to start: Failed to register: Timeout was reached

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Sergey S. Starikoff 2019-10-30 10:42:40 UTC]

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.

[Comment 1 Michał Górny 2019-10-30 11:26:07 UTC]

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.

[Comment 2 Sergey S. Starikoff 2019-10-30 14:22:50 UTC]

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.

[Comment 3 Sergey S. Starikoff 2019-11-04 18:31:17 UTC]

It looks like some commmon profile compatibility issue: I see it on my another Gentoo installation.

[Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow 2019-11-04 21:08:08 UTC]

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 <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2019-11-04 21:03:48 +0000
Commit:     Michał Górny <[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]>

 xfce-base/thunar/thunar-1.8.9.ebuild | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)