Yep, the apps are just failing to detect the session bus address of the Unity8 login.
Workaround for Unity8: 1. Find the real address: ps auxw | grep 'dbus-daemon --session' 2. env DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=... Workaround for native Mir demo shells that have no dbus: None? ** Summary changed: - [regression] GTK apps hang for a very long time on start-up under Xmir and Mir failing to find dbus + [regression] GTK apps hang for a long time on start-up under Xmir (and less under native Mir) failing to find dbus -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604704 Title: [regression] GTK apps hang for a long time on start-up under Xmir (and less under native Mir) failing to find dbus To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/1604704/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
