Just did the upgrade to Fedora 43. Everything went very smooth. However, a couple of issues showed up. First was icons not showing up properly on the desktop. That was solved by installing the new thumbnailer. But then I noticed that volumeicon was not showing up. I have been using that for some time now and it works great. My son said that he got it to work on his computer by downloading a previous version of libgdk_pixbuf and then preloading that while running volumeicon off of the command line. However it does not work for me on my computer. You can see that volumeicon is running but there is no icon. So it does not work. I also donāt really care for the stock volume control applet. Right now I am using alsamixer from the command line to adjust volume.
Seeing lots of reports about it being an issue with glycinā¦
I am a bit of hack but have decent Linux skills. My son told me that he just put in a bug report about it. I would love to get volumeicon working again. Otherwise it looks like I am stuck using alsamixer, which is just not as convenientā¦
I am definitely running MATE. Donāt know about the Compiz part of thatā¦ This is the first time I have ever had an issue with volumeicon since I started using it years ago. Something broke with 43ā¦
Yeah, that was my sonās bug report. Are we actually on Wayland now or is MATE still using X11? This isnāt a killer deal as far as using Fedora but it also seems a bit odd that something that worked so well has now been abandoned and no longer works. The volume control applet stinks. It wonāt show the volume numbers unless you hover over it and also it adjusts volume in increments of 5, not 1 like volumeicon did. So I use alsa mixer because it works better. Maybe if someone took the time to make the applet better that would be OK.
Just one more note on this thread. The fix worked yesterday on both computers. However, when I went to boot into my older computer today it would not reach the login screen. I did put up another thread about that. My son figured out that somehow fixing the bubblewrap volumeicon problem caused the boot issue. He saw that for some reason there was a prefix of āunconfinedā in front of the bwrap file in /usr/bin. Fixed that (I believe he resinstalled bubblewrap) and the boot issue went away. I hope I am explaining all of this right. SELinux was involved with the boot issue as well. Anyway, all is well again. Just want this info out there in case someone encounters the same problem.
A bit of a timeline for my upgrade to 43. First I saw that 43 was out so a few days ago I decided to go for it. Previously I would have had my son do the upgrade but now I do feel comfortable following the instructions provided by Fedora. It is quite easy and it went well.
Then after getting both computers upgraded I started to see the issues. First was the issue of thumbnails and I found the solution to that online (glycin-thumbnailer). Then came the volumeicon issue and there were no solutions posted. So I asked my son. At first he thought that he had it figured out, but that did not in fact fix the issue (he had gotten a suggestion from Chat GPT which was wrong). After a couple of days he figured it out after looking at a stack trace. Bubblewrap was in fact the issue and there was a fix. He installed the fix and it worked. The only problem was that we didnāt reboot. Somehow the fix worked just fine on the newer computer but he did clean things up a bit today. The issue with the boot not getting to the login screen reared its head this morning when I booted up the older machine. Had we rebooted yesterday we would have figured that out sooner. And I did not immediately tie the volumeicon fix to the boot issue. But after getting into recovery mode and seeing the errors he did. Hooray!