Plank error

Desktop Environments Cinnamon
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Just installed Neo. Installed plank. After install I tried both plank command, and sudo plank command. Both through an error. Anyone know what the problem is?

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[g@g-xps8940 ~]$ sudo plank
[sudo] password for g:
[WARN 16:26:39.204939] [Environment:165] XDG_SESSION_CLASS not set in this environment!
[WARN 16:26:39.204958] [Environment:196] XDG_SESSION_TYPE not set in this environment!
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.214410] [Wnck] wnck_set_client_type: changing the client type is not supported.
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.225903] [DBusManager:192] Not able to register our interfaces
[WARN 16:26:39.276736] Unable to get org.ayatana.bamf matcher: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=53b8aaa4d21e4d3f887b026df2d9aa03 --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.279354] [GLib-GIO] g_dbus_proxy_set_default_timeout: assertion ‘G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)’ failed
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.279361] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.281707] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion ‘G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)’ failed
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.281711] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.284023] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion ‘G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)’ failed
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.284027] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.286389] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion ‘G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)’ failed
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.286392] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.289012] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion ‘G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)’ failed
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.289018] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.291356] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion ‘G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)’ failed
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.291360] [GLib-GObject] invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.293754] [GLib-GObject] g_signal_connect_data: assertion ‘G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)’ failed
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.297290] [GLib-GIO] g_dbus_proxy_call_sync_internal: assertion ‘G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)’ failed
[WARN 16:26:39.297583] Failed to get running applications:
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.298111] [GLib] g_error_free: assertion ‘error != NULL’ failed
[WARN 16:26:39.301661] (Services/Matcher.c:308):plank_matcher_active_launchers: runtime check failed: (tmp3 != NULL)
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.304118] [GLib-GIO] g_dbus_proxy_call_sync_internal: assertion ‘G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)’ failed
[WARN 16:26:39.304459] Failed to register favorites:
[CRITICAL 16:26:39.305054] [GLib] g_error_free: assertion ‘error != NULL’ failed
[WARN 16:26:39.306317] [Unity:92] Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=53b8aaa4d21e4d3f887b026df2d9aa03 --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1
[WARN 16:26:39.307404] [Unity:92] Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=53b8aaa4d21e4d3f887b026df2d9aa03 --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1

(plank:15410): dconf-WARNING **: 16:26:42.310: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=53b8aaa4d21e4d3f887b026df2d9aa03 --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1

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does it launch fine and healthy from the menu?

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What is your DE? KDE, GNOME, XFCE … etc

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I’ve only tried it from terminal. At work right now…

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Cinnamon

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Found this thread.

Not sure if it’s related to my problem. I guess if the default for Neo is Wayland it could be the reason why plank is erroring out.

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what is output of this command
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

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x11
Guess its something else. Ive installed it twice and I get the same errors. I dont think I need to run it as root, but I wanted to see what did. It gives a little more info on whats going on, but its over my head.

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Interesting. I tried starting it from the menu, and it started up fine. Kind of stupid that it wont run from the terminal. At any rate, thanks for that :+1:

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In Cinnamon you should be able to make it autostart from settings. Not certain why you try running it from terminal though.

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Experience has taught me: strange chatter in the terminal output is not necessarily an indicator of much. like @Dinomonster said, autostart Plank and be done with it. you can give yourself an ulcer in the terminal :slight_smile: