Bug 2394505

Summary: spice-vdagent does not run automatically in GNOME (so copy/paste to/from host and other agent-backed functions do not work in KVM VMs)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: lnie <lnie>
Component: spice-vdagentAssignee: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 43CC: awilliam, cfergeau, hdegoede, kparal, lruzicka, marcandre.lureau, mcatanza, nixuser, petersen, robatino, victor
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: CommonBugs, Reopened
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Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: RejectedBlocker AcceptedFreezeException https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/164395
Fixed In Version: spice-vdagent-0.23.0-1.fc44 spice-vdagent-0.23.0-1.fc43 Doc Type: ---
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Description lnie 2025-09-11 07:16:51 UTC
As shown in the attached screencast, I'm not able to paste the content copied from f42 host,to f43 guest, vice versa.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Do a fresh installation with Fedora-Workstation-Live-43_Beta-1.3.x86_64.iso
2.try copy/paste
3.

Comment 1 lnie 2025-09-11 07:17:42 UTC
Created attachment 2106264 [details]
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Comment 2 lnie 2025-09-11 07:18:26 UTC
Created attachment 2106265 [details]
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Comment 3 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2025-09-11 08:15:46 UTC
Proposed as a Blocker for 43-final by Fedora user lnie using the blocker tracking app because:

 seems affects:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Final_Release_Criteria#Default_application_functionality, and it's really inconvenient

Comment 4 Marc-Andre Lureau 2025-09-11 08:41:19 UTC
@victor 
Likely resolved when doing a release, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/issues/43

Comment 5 leigh scott 2025-09-15 06:34:13 UTC
The issue doesn't reproduce here using f43 cinnamon host copying to f43 cinnamon guest and vice versa

Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2025-09-15 15:29:28 UTC
Leigh: the particular issue here is to do with GNOME 49 dropping autostart support, I think.

Comment 7 Lukas Ruzicka 2025-09-15 19:17:04 UTC
Discussed at the 2025-09-15 (blocker / freeze exception) review meeting:

This bug does not meet the blocker criteria, but it is very annoying and would be good to ensure it is fixed on the Final Workstation live if possible. Therefore, it has been accepted as a FreezeException. It has been present in KDE for a long time and is not blocking in that environment.

https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org//blocker-review_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2025-09-15/f43-blocker-review.2025-09-15-16.00.txt

Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2025-09-15 23:46:24 UTC
Heads up for folks inconvenienced by this: to work around it, just run `systemctl --user start spice-vdagent` as regular user (NOT root). It should immediately start working.

Comment 9 Michael Catanzaro 2025-09-16 14:24:58 UTC
*** Bug 2393436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Michael Catanzaro 2025-09-22 12:04:32 UTC
(I'm just needinfo?ing everybody with commit access to this package.)

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2025-09-23 10:25:05 UTC
FEDORA-2025-bccfa14567 (spice-vdagent-0.23.0-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-bccfa14567

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2025-09-23 10:29:24 UTC
FEDORA-2025-bccfa14567 (spice-vdagent-0.23.0-1.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2025-09-23 10:38:02 UTC
FEDORA-2025-30ffd76f58 (spice-vdagent-0.23.0-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-30ffd76f58

Comment 14 Kamil Páral 2025-09-23 12:27:32 UTC
(In reply to Fedora Update System from comment #13)
> FEDORA-2025-30ffd76f58 (spice-vdagent-0.23.0-1.fc43) has been submitted as
> an update to Fedora 43.
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-30ffd76f58

Reopening for F43. The clipboard is fixed with this.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2025-09-24 15:52:12 UTC
FEDORA-2025-30ffd76f58 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-30ffd76f58`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-30ffd76f58

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2025-09-26 00:20:12 UTC
FEDORA-2025-30ffd76f58 (spice-vdagent-0.23.0-1.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.