Core XFCE utils freezing up

[Konstantin Svist]

Hi,

Since last update I've been seeing freezing up behavior, mostly in the
xfce4-power-manager.

Specifically, this is the behavior I see when starting it up in command
line ($ xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon --debug --dump):
https://pastebin.ca/3938185

I can interact with its UI directly just fine, no lag. When I use a
shortcut button for brightness the 1st step succeeds (brightness changed
slightly) but power manager freezes for N seconds. If I press the
shortcut several times, the rest of presses are queued up and will take
a long time to process.

This also affects sleep behavior -- when I close my laptop, it's
supposed to sleep if on battery and just lock screen if on power. It
always sleeps now.

I haven't updated in a few weeks, so it could be a bunch of things
causing this, not sure what...

Anyone else having these issues?

[Konstantin Svist]

On 11/21/2017 09:22 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since last update I've been seeing freezing up behavior, mostly in the
> xfce4-power-manager.
>
> Specifically, this is the behavior I see when starting it up in command
> line ($ xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon --debug --dump):
> https://pastebin.ca/3938185
>
> I can interact with its UI directly just fine, no lag. When I use a
> shortcut button for brightness the 1st step succeeds (brightness changed
> slightly) but power manager freezes for N seconds. If I press the
> shortcut several times, the rest of presses are queued up and will take
> a long time to process.
>
> This also affects sleep behavior -- when I close my laptop, it's
> supposed to sleep if on battery and just lock screen if on power. It
> always sleeps now.
>
> I haven't updated in a few weeks, so it could be a bunch of things
> causing this, not sure what...
>
> Anyone else having these issues?
>
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For posterity, this seems to be the culprit:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499739
workaround: add "/usr/bin/systemctl --user start xfce4-notifyd.service"
to user app autostart