Bug#1037304: gnome-control-center: sharing non-accessible after fresh GNOME 3 installation

[Markus Koschany]

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:43.4.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: apo at debian.org

I just installed GNOME 3 on a Lenovo X280 and X230i Thinkpad. I used the most recent Debian installer as of 10.06.2023 which was still an RC candidate for Bookworm.

Open the gnome-control-center, click on the sharing menu item. Now the application starts to freeze and a dialogue opens whether I would like to wait or force quit the application. I waited for several minutes and retried the process but that didn't help.

After removing gnome-remote-desktop, the menu item "Sharing" became accessible again.

I just re-installed gnome-remote-desktop and now clicking on Sharing also works as expected which is weird. After rebooting my second Laptop Sharing also works again. Here I did not remove gnome-remote-desktop.

So apparently there is something going on in the background which blocks the Sharing menu item on a very fresh GNOME 3 installation. I would have expected a more descriptive error message or that it just works TM right from the start.

Regards,

Markus



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  accountsservice               22.08.8-6
ii  apg                           2.2.3.dfsg.1-5+b2
ii  colord                        1.4.6-2.2
ii  desktop-base                  12.0.6
ii  desktop-file-utils            0.26-1
ii  gnome-control-center-data     1:43.4.1-1
ii  gnome-desktop3-data           43.2-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon         43.0-4
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas     43.0-1
ii  libaccountsservice0           22.08.8-6
ii  libadwaita-1-0                1.2.2-1
ii  libc6                         2.36-9
ii  libcairo2                     1.16.0-7
ii  libcolord-gtk4-1              0.3.0-3.1
ii  libcolord2                    1.4.6-2.2
ii  libcups2                      2.4.2-3
ii  libepoxy0                     1.5.10-1
ii  libfontconfig1                2.14.1-4
ii  libgcr-base-3-1               3.41.1-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0           2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.74.6-2
ii  libgnome-bg-4-2               43.2-2
ii  libgnome-bluetooth-ui-3.0-13  42.5-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-4-2          43.2-2
ii  libgnome-rr-4-2               43.2-2
ii  libgnutls30                   3.7.9-2
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b                 3.46.0-1
ii  libgoa-backend-1.0-1          3.46.0-1
ii  libgsound0                    1.0.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.24.37-2
ii  libgtk-4-1                    4.8.3+ds-2
ii  libgtop-2.0-11                2.40.0-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                237-2
ii  libibus-1.0-5                 1.5.27-5
ii  libkrb5-3                     1.20.1-2
ii  libmalcontent-0-0             0.11.0-4
ii  libmm-glib0                   1.20.4-1
ii  libnm0                        1.42.4-1
ii  libnma-gtk4-0                 1.10.6-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0           1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         122-3
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0       16.1+dfsg1-2+b1
ii  libpulse0                     16.1+dfsg1-2+b1
ii  libpwquality1                 1.4.5-1+b1
ii  libsecret-1-0                 0.20.5-3
ii  libsmbclient                  2:4.17.8+dfsg-2
ii  libsnapd-glib-2-1             1.63-5
ii  libudisks2-0                  2.9.4-4
ii  libupower-glib3               0.99.20-2
ii  libwacom9                     2.6.0-1
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.8.4-2
ii  libxi6                        2:1.8-1+b1
ii  libxml2                       2.9.14+dfsg-1.2
ii  webp-pixbuf-loader            0.2.1-1

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  cracklib-runtime              2.9.6-5+b1
ii  cups-pk-helper                0.2.6-1+b1
ii  gkbd-capplet                  3.28.1-1
ii  gnome-bluetooth-sendto        42.5-3
ii  gnome-online-accounts         3.46.0-1
ii  gnome-remote-desktop          43.3-1
ii  gnome-user-docs               43.0-2
ii  gnome-user-share              43.0-1
ii  iso-codes                     4.15.0-1
ii  libcanberra-pulse             0.30-10
ii  libnss-myhostname             252.6-1
ii  libspa-0.2-bluetooth          0.3.65-3
ii  malcontent-gui                0.11.0-4
ii  network-manager-gnome         1.30.0-2
ii  polkitd                       122-3
ii  power-profiles-daemon         0.12-1+b1
ii  realmd                        0.17.1-1
ii  rygel                         0.42.1-1
ii  rygel-tracker                 0.42.1-1
ii  system-config-printer-common  1.5.18-1

Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
ii  gnome-software           43.4-1
pn  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio  <none>
ii  pkexec                   122-3
ii  x11-xserver-utils        7.7+9+b1

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