xdg-desktop-portal-gnome fails to startup after upgrading to 44~beta-1

[Alex Murray]

Since upgrading xdg-desktop-portal-gnome to 44~beta-1, it fails to startup (along with xdg-desktop-portal as well) - downgrading to 43.1-2 fixes the issue. As a result of this launching any GTK application seems to take ~25 seconds - I assume that GTK or some such is trying to contact the portal backend over dbus and then eventually timing out.

Relevant excerpts from journalctl:

[amurray:~] 3 $ systemctl status --user xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service
× xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service - Portal service (GNOME implementation)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2023-02-24 09:39:03 ACDT; 57s ago
    Process: 52457 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Main PID: 52457 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
        CPU: 11ms

Feb 24 09:37:33 graphene systemd[7592]: Starting Portal service (GNOME implementation)...
Feb 24 09:39:03 graphene systemd[7592]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Feb 24 09:39:03 graphene systemd[7592]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Feb 24 09:39:03 graphene systemd[7592]: Failed to start Portal service (GNOME implementation).

[amurray:~] 1 $ systemctl status --user xdg-desktop-portal.service
× xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2023-02-24 09:39:03 ACDT; 53s ago
    Process: 52453 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Main PID: 52453 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
        CPU: 15ms

Feb 24 09:37:33 graphene systemd[7592]: Starting Portal service...
Feb 24 09:38:23 graphene xdg-desktop-por[52453]: Failed to create settings proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gnome: Timeout was reached
Feb 24 09:38:48 graphene xdg-desktop-por[52453]: Failed to create file chooser proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gnome: Timeout was reached
Feb 24 09:38:48 graphene xdg-desktop-por[52453]: No skeleton to export
Feb 24 09:39:03 graphene systemd[7592]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Feb 24 09:39:03 graphene systemd[7592]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Feb 24 09:39:03 graphene systemd[7592]: Failed to start Portal service.

[amurray:~] $ systemctl status --user xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service
○ xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service; static)
     Active: inactive (dead)

Feb 24 09:36:22 graphene systemd[7592]: Starting Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation)...
Feb 24 09:36:22 graphene systemd[7592]: Started Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 44~beta-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-29.30-generic 5.19.17
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.24.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Feb 24 09:36:16 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-08-03 (569 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Alpha amd64 (20210802)
SourcePackage: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-01-27 (27 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Also tracking in bug 2008165

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xdg-desktop-portal-gnome - 44~beta-1ubuntu1

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xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (44~beta-1ubuntu1) lunar; urgency=medium

  * Revert commit that is incompatible with mutter 43 (LP: #2008165, #2008428)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:50:07 -0500