GTK and any Flatpak apps are now extremely slow starting in Plasma

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Greetings,

I’m running Fedora 38 Beta.

Around 10 days ago, I noticed that any GTK app, and all Flatpak apps (Including Qt-based apps) had started launching very, very slowly in KDE Plasma.

We’re talking 2 1/2 - 3 minutes launch time.

And I sometimes get error messages like this launching some GTK apps:

Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

I’d file a bug report, but one may have already been filed, and I’m not sure what to file it under.

Thoughts?

TIA

Scott

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I’ve had differing experiences depending on the machine. On my VM running Fedora 38 Kinoite, I am experiencing what you described with flapaks. The flatpaks on that VM take a long time to start, 1.5 minutes or so. Rebasing to Silverblue remedies the issue.

On a laptop running Fedora 38 Kinoite, I experience no issues. The only difference that I have uncovered between the two installations is that xdg-desktop-portal.serivce is timing out my my VM machine. On my laptop, that service starts without issue.

Is xdg-desktop-portal.service timing out on your system? What does “systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal.service” return?

(Edited to correct service name)

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I’m running regular Fedora 38 (no ostree) on bare metal.

$ systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal.service
× xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal.service; static)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Thu 2023-04-06 19:41:22 PDT; 1s ago
    Process: 20804 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal (code=killed, signal=TERM)
   Main PID: 20804 (code=killed, signal=TERM)
        CPU: 22ms

Apr 06 19:40:37 ellietoo systemd[1931]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service...
Apr 06 19:41:22 ellietoo systemd[1931]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Apr 06 19:41:22 ellietoo systemd[1931]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Apr 06 19:41:22 ellietoo systemd[1931]: Failed to start xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service```
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176759

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Thank you for sharing that.

I’ve added my $.02 to it.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176759#c20

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