timeshift gets stuck

[Miguel Angel Noguera]

Timeshift takes more than a minute to make and/or delete a btrfs snapshot in Kubuntu-noble (in all other flavors, including Lubuntu, it only takes a few seconds), so it is undoubtedly a Kubuntu bug.

Looking at the timeshift logs I see that at a certain point it gets stuck for exactly one minute (in the attached log, between lines 164 and 165)

This affects Timeshift on both virtual machines and real hardware.

Taking a snapshot from the command line without Timeshift only takes 0.018 seconds

[Miguel Angel Noguera (miquelibz)]

The problem is that Timeshift tries to run notify-send as root and that doesn't work:

time /usr/bin/notify-send "hola"
Error al llamar StartSereviceByName para org.freedesktop.Notifications: Se alcanzó el tiempo de expiración

real 1m0,360s
user 0m0,005s
sys 0m0,011s

As a workaround, setting alias notify-send='/usr/bin/true' in root's .bash_aliases returns expected behavior