Open PeterDaveHello opened 11 months ago
I used sudo killall timeshift
to terminate the hanging process. The system tray icon disappeared as a result. This allowed me to launch a new Timeshift instance successfully, and I was able to clean up old backups.
Upon further inspection, a residual backup was discovered in /timeshift/snapshots
. This is suspected to be a remnant of the backup process that was manually killed. The backup was not displayed in the Timeshift interface and had to be manually removed.
Describe the bug
During a scheduled backup, the disk (partition) became full, triggering a system notification about the lack of storage space. I attempted to open the Timeshift GUI to see if old snapshots could be deleted. However, a dialog with a title
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appeared in the Taskbar/Panel, stating "Scheduled snapshot in progress..." and "Another instance of Timeshift is creating a snapshot. Please wait a few minutes and try again," as shown below:Upon double-checking the system tray, I noticed that the snapshot creation was still ongoing, as indicated by the message "A Timeshift system snapshot is being created":
Double-clicking or right-clicking the icon produced no response, menu, or options, and there were no interactive windows available. This situation has persisted for approximately five hours without any changes, meaning the application did not terminate or resolve the issue on its own. As a result, there was no proper way to terminate or interact with the ongoing process except by directly killing it.
To Reproduce
I have not had the opportunity to reproduce this issue yet, as the problem is still ongoing. Reporting it here for now.
Expected behavior
System: