Bug 2400646 - liferea does not launch on Fedora 43 Workstation: Failed to register: Timeout was reached
Summary: liferea does not launch on Fedora 43 Workstation: Failed to register: Timeout...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: liferea
Version: 43
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Yanko Kaneti
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: F43FinalFreezeException, FinalFreezeException
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Reported: 2025-10-01 10:47 UTC by Fabio Valentini
Modified: 2025-10-03 00:17 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: liferea-1.16.5-2.fc43
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2025-10-03 00:17:07 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Fabio Valentini 2025-10-01 10:47:41 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading from Fedora 42 Workstation to 43, launching liferea from the desktop icon does nothing.

Launching it from the command-line (as "liferea") does nothing either, and only prints:

> Failed to register: Timeout was reached

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liferea-1.15.8-3.fc43.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch liferea from desktop icon or command line
2. ... ... wait
3. nothing happens

Actual results:
Does not launch.

Expected results:
Does launch.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Yanko Kaneti 2025-10-01 10:57:12 UTC
Liferea is a victim of the pygobject upgrade fiasco. 
Switching to 1.16.5 , libpeas2 and with some additional fixes it should work for what is in f43, but I wonder if we should wait for 1.16.6 which seems to have another major refactor incoming

Comment 2 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2025-10-01 14:41:17 UTC
Proposed as a Freeze Exception for 43-final by Fedora user decathorpe using the blocker tracking app because:

 liferea does not launch on Fedora 43 at all, apparently due to changes in pygobject3 3.52+.

Comment 3 Yanko Kaneti 2025-10-01 15:52:07 UTC
On a second thought I'll update to 1.16.5 that should at least work

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2025-10-01 16:02:00 UTC
FEDORA-2025-472183cef0 (liferea-1.16.5-2.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-472183cef0

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2025-10-02 01:10:19 UTC
FEDORA-2025-472183cef0 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-2025-472183cef0`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-472183cef0

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

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2025-10-03 00:17:07 UTC
FEDORA-2025-472183cef0 (liferea-1.16.5-2.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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