On 2019-08-15 at 07:34:00, Simon McVittie wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 23:48:09 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > GTK+ produces the following warning when attempting to register a client > > with the session manager and the client is already registered: > > > > (caja:3729): Gtk-WARNING **: 02:59:57.229: Failed to register client: > > GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.AlreadyRegistered: Unable to register > > client > > Under what circumstances does this occur? I see the program in question > is caja. What desktop environment is this in, and how can this bug be > reproduced?
This is in MATE with a typical mate-session startup. This message gets logged to ~/.xsession-errors, and it's trivially reproducible by running "killall caja". I believe I've seen it before when running from the command line, but I can't seem to reproduce that now. I unfortunately don't have a fresh session to test against, and MATE isn't likely to run nicely in a Docker container, which is my usual test environment for bugs. > (I assume it's either GNOME, one of the various GNOME forks, or XFCE, > based on the D-Bus APIs used in the function that contains that warning.) > > I don't know the session manager API well enough to know immediately > whether this message indicates a bug in the session manager, the > application, GTK, or something else. I see this much like reporting an ENOENT with unlink(2): what you wanted has already been done, so barring some specific circumstance where you know it will be a problem, there's no reason to report an error. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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