Did you stop/start the DBus daemon? On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 08:15, Ofnuts via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> I run several Gimp versions (currently 2.10.24 and 2.10.30). Each > version has its own user profile. I had a couple of crashes of the > 2.10.30 version recently. > > Recently both versions started to have very long startup times (around > 30 seconds). I started investigating a rogue plugin, but even after > removing all directories from the plugin path the startup time persisted. > > Starting Gimp with "--verbose" didn't help much, except for two loader > error messages that I have seen earlier when Gimp was working OK there > was nothing to see until the end of the 30s delay. > > Then I noticed that if I started Gimp from a command line, it always > started a new instance, as if "--new-instance" was specified. > > While checking if I had a hidden running/zombie instance, I came across > an orphan script-fu process, but killing it didn't fix the problem. > > Looking at the code, it appears that Gimp uses DBus to check for > existing running instances and transfer them CLI parameters, so I > assumed that something was amiss with DBus. Logoff/logon didn't fix > anything, but rebooting the system did. > > So, my question is: if this happens again, are there DBus commands that > I can use to check the problem, and if possible, fix it? > > -- > > ofnuts > > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > -- My Amazon author page : https://amazon.com/author/cliffpratt My Facebook author page : https://www.facebook.com/cliffprattauthor My Search on Kobo : https://www.kobo.com/search?query=Cliff+Pratt _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list