This issue is easy to replicate in any clean install of Ubuntu 19.10. For example, $ sudo apt install hexchat $ hexchat That would allow you to trouble shoot on an development system.
Happy to provide a full 'journalctl -b 0' log if requested, but probably more useful to generate on a development machine. Here are the last few lines of mine, the "Failed: Could not get window list" sounds promising... Dec 06 07:42:03 zb systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service... Dec 06 07:42:03 zb dbus-daemon[1012]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' Dec 06 07:42:03 zb systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service. Dec 06 07:42:14 zb systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Succeeded. Dec 06 07:42:25 zb thunderbird.desktop[1942]: console.debug: "main/language-dictionaries 80 records loaded from JSON dump" Dec 06 07:42:25 zb thunderbird.desktop[1942]: console.debug: "main/sites-classification 7 records loaded from JSON dump" Dec 06 07:42:53 zb xdg-desktop-por[1874]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: App introspection not allowed Dec 06 07:42:53 zb kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp41s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:23:04:18:e6:00:08:00 SRC=10.73.1.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=21410 PROTO=2 Dec 06 07:42:56 zb kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlp41s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:fb:f0:79:59:70:d6:ac:08:00 SRC=10.73.1.231 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2 Dec 06 07:43:51 zb gnome-shell[1942]: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x4200034 Dec 06 07:43:51 zb gnome-shell[1942]: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x4200034 Dec 06 07:43:53 zb xdg-desktop-por[1874]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: App introspection not allowed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to dbus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852016 Title: Applications delayed on launch Status in dbus package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hello, i am unsure if this is really a problem with dbus but my first research showed it could be related to dbus. 1.) No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 19.10 Release: 19.10 Codename: eoan Ubuntu Budgie on T460 with 256GB SSD and 16GB RAM 2.) dbus: Installed: 1.12.14-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 1.12.14-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.12.14-1ubuntu2 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.) I've expected just "normal" loading applications 4.) Some applications are delayed at startup. The application will take around 30s to launch, but afterwards it just runs fine. Affected application I found so far are KeepassXC, Filezilla and OnlyOffice Desktop-Editor. From strace I saw this applications are stopping (for about 20-30s) at this point: connect(12, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/run/user/1000/bus"}, 110) = 0 getpid() = 8165 geteuid() = 1000 getegid() = 1000 getpid() = 8165 geteuid() = 1000 getegid() = 1000 sendmsg(12, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="\0", iov_len=1}], msg_iovlen=1, msg_control=[{cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS, cmsg_data={pid=8165, uid=1000, gid=1000}}], msg_controllen=32, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 1 sendto(12, "AUTH\r\n", 6, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 6 recvfrom(12, "REJECTED EXTERNAL\r\n", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 19 sendto(12, "AUTH EXTERNAL 31303030\r\n", 24, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 24 recvfrom(12, "OK 7f079149c4e5e774135107445dc85"..., 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 37 sendto(12, "NEGOTIATE_UNIX_FD\r\n", 19, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 19 recvfrom(12, "AGREE_UNIX_FD\r\n", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 15 sendto(12, "BEGIN\r\n", 7, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 7 write(15, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 eventfd2(0, EFD_CLOEXEC|EFD_NONBLOCK) = 14 write(14, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 write(15, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 poll([{fd=14, events=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 1 ([{fd=14, revents=POLLIN}]) read(14, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 8 poll([{fd=14, events=POLLIN}], 1, 25000 During my first research I found this following to topics related to the issue: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1184774/some-applications-on-ubuntu-19-10-very-slow-to-start This Stackoverflow topic links to the archlinux forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=230036 I can confirm that running the delayed applications with "dbus-launch --exit-with-session application" or by running it as root they are all starting without any delay. Thanks for your help! Let me know if you need any further information. Best Regards, Sebastian To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/1852016/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp