Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1291425
xembedsniproxy: (RFE) restartable systemd-user service
Last modified: 2016-02-04 11:18:02 EST
Description of problem: The package plasma-workspace contains /etc/xdg/autostart/xembedsniproxy.desktop but xembedsniproxy is not started automatically by KDE. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -q --info plasma-workspace Name : plasma-workspace Version : 5.5.0 Release : 2.fc23 Architecture: x86_64 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start KDE Actual results: See that xembedsniproxy is not running Expected results: xembedsniproxy should be running Additional info: Without this tool running, the system tray icons do not work for pidgin and perhaps other programs as well. See http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/xembed_back.
It's probably running, but then crashing. Can you try starting it by hand?
Works fine if I start it by hand. I'm not seeing anything that looks relevant in .xsession-errors re. a crash.
Ok, I just found some errors in /var/log/messages. Looks like it is segfaulting on startup. I don't know why it works when run manually (via a krunner input) vs when run automatically by KDE. Dec 14 13:44:50 edison audit: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=4580 comm="xembedsniproxy" exe="/usr/bin/xembedsniproxy" sig=11 Dec 14 13:44:50 edison kernel: xembedsniproxy[4580]: segfault at 10 ip 000055f63708ab05 sp 00007ffe7d5f4e90 error 4 in xembedsniproxy[55f63707c000+16000] Dec 14 14:41:44 edison audit: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=3 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=12706 comm="xembedsniproxy" exe="/usr/bin/xembedsniproxy" sig=11 Dec 14 14:41:44 edison kernel: xembedsniproxy[12706]: segfault at 10 ip 000055b78638eb05 sp 00007ffe1b11a8e0 error 4 in xembedsniproxy[55b786380000+16000] Dec 14 14:49:49 edison audit: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=5 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=14627 comm="xembedsniproxy" exe="/usr/bin/xembedsniproxy" sig=11 Dec 14 14:49:49 edison kernel: xembedsniproxy[14627]: segfault at 10 ip 00005555ad680b05 sp 00007ffc0d8fdd70 error 4 in xembedsniproxy[5555ad672000+16000] Dec 14 15:08:19 edison audit: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=6 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=19758 comm="xembedsniproxy" exe="/usr/bin/xembedsniproxy" sig=11 Dec 14 15:08:19 edison kernel: xembedsniproxy[19758]: segfault at 10 ip 000055ea6f4e8b05 sp 00007fff682cc2d0 error 4 in xembedsniproxy[55ea6f4da000+16000] Dec 14 15:39:58 edison audit: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=9 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=30931 comm="xembedsniproxy" exe="/usr/bin/xembedsniproxy" sig=11 Dec 14 15:39:58 edison kernel: xembedsniproxy[30931]: segfault at 10 ip 000055ffaf24db05 sp 00007ffce9a7ae80 error 4 in xembedsniproxy[55ffaf23f000+16000]
Could it be this bug? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355463
Note that xembedsniproxy crashes quite a lot -- it just randomly crashed on me again. I just set it up as a systemd user unit with a Restart directive which should work nicely: ~ cat .config/systemd/user/xembedsniproxy.service [Unit] Description=xembed SNI proxy daemon [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/xembedsniproxy Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=graphical.target Since this SNI proxy should (theoretically) be temporary, perhaps rather than attempting to debug issues in this software, the Fedora packaging for this could do something similar with a system-level user service configured in /usr/lib/systemd/user/xembedsniproxy.service?
I believe all known-crashers should be addressed in plasma-5.5.4 release, but we can still consider adding a user service in the future.