The thunar "GLib-GIO:ERROR" after glib2 2.74.3-1 update to glib2 2.74.4-1

joekamprad · January 4, 2023, 10:22am

vala-panel-appmenu you mean… uninstalling glib2 would be bad

anthony93 · January 4, 2023, 10:23am

Yeah. Uninstall vala panel. I should probably clarify that.

joekamprad · January 4, 2023, 10:55am

I installed “Global menu” by these commands:

yay vala-panel-appmenu,

vala-panel-appmenu-registrar,

vala-panel-appmenu-xfce,

sudo pacman -S appmenu-gtk-module,

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/ShellShowsMenubar -n -t bool -s true,

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/ShellShowsAppmenu -n -t bool -s true

vala-panel-appmenu does not exist on AUR or repo…
i do see only: vala-panel-appmenu-valapanel

just try to reproduce in a vm… but i can start thunar without the error…

anthony93 · January 4, 2023, 10:59am

When ppl install stuff from outside the AUR and the repo, that’s when things start to go haywire.

anthony93 · January 4, 2023, 11:00am

Were u able to figure out where gmenuexporter.c came from?

joekamprad · January 4, 2023, 11:04am

nah it does not exist here …

[joe@joe-virtualbox ~]$ LANG=C pacman -Qo /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gmenuexporter.c
error: No package owns /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gmenuexporter.c
[joe@joe-virtualbox ~]$ LANG=C ls /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gmenuexporter.c
ls: cannot access '/usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gmenuexporter.c': No such file or directory
[joe@joe-virtualbox ~]$

anthony93 · January 4, 2023, 11:06am

Then why did Thunar throw that exception?

joekamprad · January 4, 2023, 11:09am

github.com

GNOME/glib/blob/main/gio/gmenuexporter.c

/*
 * Copyright © 2011 Canonical Ltd.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
 *
 *  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 *  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 *  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 *  Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
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 *
 * Author: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
 */

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Katie · January 4, 2023, 11:26am

Exactly! I couldn’t reproduce it on VM too. So I did reinstall of EnOS. And I have this error again.
The full list of vala packages:

Katie · January 4, 2023, 11:30am

As mentioned here it might be not thunar, but dbus through exporting menu panel to vala-panel. (?)

anthony93 · January 4, 2023, 11:36am

What puzzles me is that an exception occurred inside a file that (seemingly) doesn’t even exist on your system.

anthony93 · January 4, 2023, 12:00pm

@Katie Does the error still occur if you uninstall vala-panel and all its related packages?

What if you kill the vala-panel application and then launch thunar? Does the error still occur then?

joekamprad · January 4, 2023, 12:47pm

okay i will try on hardware install

Katie · January 4, 2023, 1:13pm

Cant’t figure out which process to kill.

anthony93 · January 4, 2023, 1:18pm

Hmm. Open up htop and search for vala. There should be a list of processes. Can you take a screenshot of that list?

joekamprad · January 4, 2023, 2:01pm

pidof vala-panel
will gave the pid yu can use for kill pid where pid is replaced with the pid number

joekamprad · January 4, 2023, 2:03pm

also on real hardware i can not reproduce the error … it must be something you installed or changed on your system or by any small chance something related to your specific hardware … but i do not think this is possible…

what exactly is installed?

yay -Qs vala-panel
and in addition what you have from AUR:
pacman -Qm

And you mention plank also… so you do install plank too and use it in your setup?

petsam · January 4, 2023, 2:26pm

It means one of two things IME.

A permissions problem on using a file (probably a lib), which you can check looking into permissions in library, or other system files (unlikely IMHO)
Some local file (in your $HOME/.local/*) is overriding a system file (lib??). You can check this by creating a new user account and testing for the issue.

Katie · January 4, 2023, 3:13pm

I am not sure that all these has a sence.
I explain.

Killing the vala-panel processes. We do not know wich processes exactly to kill. Vala uses xfce panel, it’s a plugin. It uses dbus and many other staff to pick up menu bars from GNOME, KDE, GTK applications. So it is difficult for me to figure out wich process to kill. There is no any vala or appmenu processes running.
We certanly know that exactly update from glib2 2.74.3 to 2.74.4 triggered the problem. We certainly know it. Without update of this package everything worked.
sudo thunar doesn’t lead us to the conclution that some file was overwritten. It is just show us that with higher privileges vala-panel or something related to vala-panel doesn’t have access to the menu and doesn’t trigger the problem.

petsam · January 4, 2023, 3:21pm

You seem to have a lot of Linux knowledge and I am surprised you have even asked for help.
Apart from irony/joking, what is the problem testing any advice you were given, even not understanding/agreeing with?
It’s your system. your problem anyway