Public bug reported: I'm running MATE on Ubuntu 18.04.2. Recently, mate-notification-daemon has started quitting within ~30-60 seconds after being invoked, so I have no notifications daemon. This causes the entire desktop environment to hang for about a minute each time the system tries to show a notification (such as when wifi connects or disconnects, or I receive a chat message).
My notifications used to work fine. I don't know why this has changed. My apt update logs show no updates to mate-notification-daemon. However, this issue is easy to reproduce: 1) Observe via ps that mate-notification-daemon isn't running 2) Invoke it (e.g. by running "time /usr/lib/mate-notification-daemon/mate-notification-daemon" in a terminal) 3) Observe that the daemon quits after ~30-60 seconds: $ time /usr/lib/mate-notification-daemon/mate-notification-daemon real 0m29.954s user 0m0.044s sys 0m0.018s I've run mate-notification-daemon under gdb, with the same behavior. gdb reports the daemon is quitting normally. Notifications being broken and causing the entire DE to hang each time I get a notification is a severe usability problem. ** Affects: mate-notification-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1837923 Title: mate-notification-daemon quits after ~30-60 seconds To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mate-notification-daemon/+bug/1837923/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs