Bug 1275462

Summary: Long delay in starting GTK applications
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ben Boeckel <fedora>
Component: gvfsAssignee: Ondrej Holy <oholy>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 24CC: alexl, bnocera, ccecchi, demarco.giu, fedora, mclasen, oholy
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Description Ben Boeckel 2015-10-27 01:11:00 UTC
Starting up any GTK-using application takes an inordinate amount of time with this output:

GVFS-WARNING **: Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.vfs.Daemon: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)

I see this in the journal:

Oct 26 20:57:58 bronto-burt dbus-daemon[1277]: Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.gtk.vfs.Daemon' unit='gvfs-daemon.service'
Oct 26 20:59:58 bronto-burt dbus-daemon[1277]: Failed to activate service 'org.gtk.vfs.Daemon': timed out
Oct 26 20:59:58 bronto-burt dbus-daemon[1277]: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out

Packages:

gvfs-1.26.1.1-2.fc24.x86_64
dbus-1.10.0-3.fc24.x86_64
systemd-227-1.fc24.x86_64
gtk3-3.18.2-1.fc24.x86_64

Uninstalling gvfs doesn't help anything either.

Comment 1 Ben Boeckel 2015-11-07 02:20:08 UTC
Removing gvfs makes things happy again. Reassigning.

Comment 2 Ondrej Holy 2015-11-10 07:25:41 UTC
Thanks for your bug report.

Could you test also latest gvfs-1.26.1.1-3 package (I can't reproduce with)? This package contains one dbus related patch, which might potentially also fix this issue...

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 13:52:31 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

Comment 4 Ben Boeckel 2016-07-24 04:13:28 UTC
Still able to reproduce the problem with gvfs-1.29.4-1.fc25. Not sure what's up with it; I do have a pretty stripped down system (from a DE point-of-view), so does gvfs not do well if none of its backends are installed?

Comment 5 Ondrej Holy 2016-07-29 12:29:33 UTC
(In reply to Ben Boeckel from comment #4)
> Still able to reproduce the problem with gvfs-1.29.4-1.fc25. Not sure what's
> up with it; I do have a pretty stripped down system (from a DE
> point-of-view), so does gvfs not do well if none of its backends are
> installed?

Do you see same problems if you boot from live disk? Is it possible to reproduce this uninstalling some packages? What do you mean with stripped down system and that none of its backends are installed? If you manually removed some important parts, it doesn't have to work correctly...

Do you see some failures if you start the main daemon manually:
/usr/libexec/gvfsd --replace

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Comment 8 Ben Boeckel 2020-02-12 08:25:19 UTC
I haven't noticed this in a long time.

Comment 9 giuse 2021-02-13 18:22:09 UTC
Same here. After upgrating to Fedora 33, I can't start smoothly any GTK/Gnome Application:
All errors are  similiar to these ones:

# gnome-screenshot --interactive
Error creating proxy: Errore nel chiamare StartServiceByName per org.gtk.vfs.AfcVolumeMonitor: È stato raggiunto il timeout (g-io-error-quark, 24)