libertine apps work somtimes and then freeze

[ventrical]

libertine is erratic in loading apps. Some will work like firefox and nautilus but others will fail like gnome-terminal and gnome-screenshot

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: libertine 1.0.4+16.10.20160519-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-23.41-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jun 7 16:24:36 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-16 (387 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150510)
SourcePackage: libertine
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Thanks for using Libertine and reporting problems.

We need more information to be able to further analyse the trouble you're experiencing. You should be able to find log files in the directory $HOME/.cache/upstart containing the output from your failed applications. Please attach some of those log files to this bug and we will take a look.

[ventrical (dale-f-beaudoin)]

From: application-legacy-libertine-1465337365150327.log

Loading module: 'libubuntu_application_api_desktop_mirclient.so.3.0.0'
ubuntumirclient: Got invalid serialized mime data. Ignoring it.
ubuntumirclient: Attempted to deliver an event to a non-existent window, ignoring.

[ventrical (dale-f-beaudoin)]

Just a note. I am running several installs of unity8 on different machines .. both i386 and amd64 on on both yakkety and xenial. On the i386 machines libertine will not load at all. It just spins when you try to install it and then does not build the container. This is probably a seperate bug I should file.

I will send logs from my install where apps have failed to load.

regards..

[Dale Beaudoin (twocamels)]

So when I try to open an app like gnome screenshot or gnome terminal I get:

** (process:32125): CRITICAL **: main: assertion 'bus != NULL' failed

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Many Gnome applications will only work on a Gnome desktop session and rely on a session D-Bus providing D-Bus activated Gnome services inside the container. Among those applications are Gnome Terminal and Gnome Screenshot.

The solution is to use alternative applications that are designed to work standalone without close integration with a full session management suite, at least until there is some way to support containing session management (which is not a goal of Libertine).

I'm marking this as low priority, because the problem stems from trying to run applications designed to run in a completely different environment than Libertine provides. The preferred solution is that Gnome apps be run natively on Unity 8 and not using XMir in a Libertine container, and that is being worked on outside of the Libertine project.