mintreport: indicator-application breaks SNI support

[thegreatyellow67]

I'm testing Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon in a Virtualbox machine. I'm realizing that applications that have a systray icon are not shown (example ClipIt, Owncloud Client, etc). It's a bug or my mistake? Is there any new feature that enables/disables systray icons? Now I only see Update Manager icon, Network icon, Printer icon and Volume icon. Thanks!

[aureoud-fr85]

Hello, I think this is related to this bug: xapp-sn-watcher silently hangs signal 11 each system startup and switching user #69 https://github.com/linuxmint/mint20-beta/issues/69 Regards,

[thegreatyellow67]

Thanks a lot, so will be fixed with the xapp-sn-watcher bug.

[mtwebster]

@thegreatyellow67 can you perform the steps I outlined here?

Thakns

[thegreatyellow67]

So, the first command: dpkg --list | grep indicator returned: ii gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 12.10.1+20.04.20200408.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 Typelib files for libappindicator3-1. ii indicator-applet 12.10.2+20.04.20200409-0ubuntu1 amd64 GNOME panel indicator applet ii indicator-application 12.10.1+19.04.20190308.1-0ubuntu3 amd64 Application Indicators ii indicator-appmenu 15.02.0+16.10.20160927-0ubuntu5 amd64 Indicator for application menus. ii indicator-bluetooth 0.0.6+17.10.20170605-0ubuntu3 amd64 System bluetooth indicator. ii indicator-common 16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu4 all indicator shared files ii indicator-datetime 15.10+20.04.20200217-0ubuntu1 amd64 Simple clock ii indicator-keyboard 0.0.0+19.10.20190716-0ubuntu3 amd64 Keyboard indicator ii indicator-messages 13.10.1+18.10.20180918-0ubuntu2 amd64 indicator that collects messages that need a response ii indicator-power 12.10.6+17.10.20170829.1-0ubuntu5 amd64 Indicator showing power state. ii indicator-printers 0.1.7+17.10.20171101-0ubuntu2 amd64 indicator showing active print jobs ii indicator-session 17.3.20+19.10.20190921-0ubuntu1 amd64 indicator showing session management, status and user switching ii indicator-sound 12.10.2+18.10.20180612-0ubuntu1 amd64 System sound indicator. ii libappindicator1 12.10.1+20.04.20200408.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 Application Indicators ii libappindicator3-1 12.10.1+20.04.20200408.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 Application Indicators ii libayatana-appindicator3-1 0.5.4-2 amd64 Ayatana Application Indicators (GTK-3+ version) ii libayatana-indicator3-7:amd64 0.6.3-1 amd64 panel indicator applet - shared library (GTK-3+ variant) ii libindicator3-7 16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu4 amd64 panel indicator applet - shared library

and the second: gdbus call --session --dest org.freedesktop.DBus --object-path / --method org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixProcessID org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher returned: (uint32 3516,)

so: giagio@mbox:~$ ps -A | grep 3516 3516 ? 00:00:00 indicator-appli

[mtwebster]

You need to uninstall indicator-application. Most of the indicator applications don't work under Cinnamon either, but indicator-application is blocking XApp's handler from running (causing your icons not to show up).

[thegreatyellow67]

As suggested, I've removed package indicator-application and application icons are now visible. As I've installed some packages, I really don't know if one of them has installed indicator-application as dependency, but I think no, because during removing it not suggested me to remove other software related to it. I would like to investigate further by installing a new virtual machine and check if that package exists in a clean installation.

[thegreatyellow67]

As was obvious, the indicator-application package is not present in a clean installation of Mint 20. So, now I will have to investigate which application installs this package. This problem does not exist in my main PC with Mint 19.3 Cinnamon installed. I am afraid to encounter the same problem when I will install Mint 20 on my linux pc.

[mtwebster]

There are 2 log files in /var/log/apt, they should show you a history of installations (including dependencies).

[thegreatyellow67]

I was just inspecting the /var/log/apt/term.log file...

[thegreatyellow67]

I'm not sure but: Log started: 2020-06-14 21:53:01 Selecting previously unselected package libunity-gtk2-parser0:amd64. ... Preparing to unpack .../26-indicator-common_16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu4_all.deb ... Unpacking indicator-common (16.10.0+18.04.20180321.1-0ubuntu4) ... Selecting previously unselected package indicator-application. Preparing to unpack .../27-indicator-application_12.10.1+19.04.20190308.1-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking indicator-application (12.10.1+19.04.20190308.1-0ubuntu3) ...

term.log

[clefebvre]

https://github.com/linuxmint/mintreport/pull/53

[clefebvre]

Ok, fixed in git. We'll send an update when the translations are ready.

[thegreatyellow67]

Thanks Mr. LeFebvre.