Bug#1108442: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome: Crashes in a wayland session

[Simon McVittie]

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On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 at 20:58:52 +0200, Paolo Redaelli wrote:
>xdg-desktop-portal-gnome crashes a Gnome session at login when selecting a wayland
>session while it runs fine in an Xorg session.

Do you have evidence of this crash? The Journal messages you quoted are 
about xdg-desktop-portal, and they indicate that xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 
(not xdg-desktop-portal-gnome) took too long to start up (which is bad, 
but is not a crash).

Please look at the systemd Journal with journalctl, preferably as a 
privileged user (root or a member of the adm group), to get an overview 
of what is happening at the time.

>Jun 28 13:44:19 acer-paolo xdg-desktop-por[3745]: Choosing gtk.portal for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Lockdown as a last-resort fallback
>Jun 28 13:44:44 acer-paolo xdg-desktop-por[3745]: Choosing gtk.portal for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Settings as a last-resort fallback

This is a message from xdg-desktop-portal, not from 
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.

>Jun 28 13:45:09 acer-paolo xdg-desktop-por[3745]: Failed to create settings proxy: Errore nel chiamare StartServiceByName per org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk: È stato raggiunto il timeout

This is a message from xdg-desktop-portal about xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, 
and is unrelated to xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.

>Jun 28 13:45:34 acer-paolo xdg-desktop-por[3745]: Failed to create file chooser proxy: Errore nel chiamare StartServiceByName per org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk: È stato raggiunto il timeout

Same here.

>Jun 28 13:45:49 acer-paolo systemd[2105]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.

This is a message from systemd about xdg-desktop-portal, and again is 
unrelated to xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.

     smcv