plank start delay because bamfdaemon not ready

[mbod]

I am using plank with cinnamon desktop (Manjaro Linux). When I logout and directly login again the automatic plank start is delayed by several seconds. And the reason is that plank is waiting for bamfdaemon to start. But bamfdaemon is not started:

systemd[3487]: bamfdaemon.service: Start request repeated too quickly.

When I wait a couple seconds before I login again everything is fine. It is just this quick logout/login cycle which stops plank resp. bamfdaemon.

Matthias

[ALinuxUser (buntulongername-new)]

I too use Plank on Cinnamon and I have a similar problem. To wit: when I logout and then log back in, Plank is slow to start and the bamfdaemon service fails (as reported by systemd). Moreover, once Plank has started, and I run some application(s) pinned to plank, the 'running' indicator does not show - until I quit Plank and restart it.

[ALinuxUser (buntulongername-new)]

> When I wait a couple seconds before I login again everything is fine. It is just this quick logout/login cycle which stops plank resp. bamfdaemon.

That suggested a work-around that - hallelujah! - seems to work. To wit: set plank to autostart, for all graphical user accounts, _with a delay_. Five seconds works for me.

I'll cross-post this comment - in an 'issue' - of its own, to Ubuntu's Plank repository, even though I am on Mint. For, who knows, perhaps bugs posted there actually get fixed? (In this _repository_, all or at least nearly all bug reports languish for years without attention from the maintainer. If there still _is_ a maintainer.)