Trayscale won't show up window

[diogobaeder]

Hi folks!

Something that started happening this week: when I start Trayscale, it shows up the icon in my tray bar, but it won't react to any of the context menu commands, and won't show up the window, so I can't control the connections through the tool. And unfortunately I haven't found a way to look at app logs for it either.

Any idea of how I can fix this, or at least gather more info about what might be happening?

Thanks!

[DeedleFake]

Are you using the Flatpak version? Are you using a custom control server, i.e. Headscale?

If you are using the Flatpak version, you can run it from the command-line with flatpak run dev.deedles.Trayscale which'll let you get logs and info.

[diogobaeder]

I'm using the version packer for AUR (Arch Linux). Just Trayscale and Tailscale (CLI client).

[skarpinis]

same issue fedora 41
from terminal:
trayscale
2025/01/25 21:50:29 ERROR register application err="Timeout was reached"

[5calV]

ERROR register application err="Timeout was reached"
On EndeavourOS, with both the flatpak and AUR package.

[loukamb]

I can confirm this is also happening on Arch Linux with both AUR and flatpak. The only visible error message I get from running either from a terminal is Timeout was reached, as seen above.

[DeedleFake]

That error happens because Gtk4 is unable to register the application with D-Bus. The most likely reason is that the app is already running, but frozen, and Gtk4 is timing out trying to contact the existing one. Can you check to see if there is a frozen Trayscale instance running and, if so, kill it and try running the app from the terminal again?

[5calV]

That error happens because Gtk4 is unable to register the application with D-Bus. The most likely reason is that the app is already running, but frozen, and Gtk4 is timing out trying to contact the existing one. Can you check to see if there is a frozen Trayscale instance running and, if so, kill it and try running the app from the terminal again?

Yes, this was the case. Here is my output after killing the process and then restarting trayscale from the shell:

[calv@calV-X1-Nano ~]$ flatpak run dev.deedles.Trayscale
2025/01/26 22:13:56 ERROR get profile status err="Access denied: profiles access denied"
2025/01/26 22:13:56 ERROR adw_application_window_set_content: assertion 'gtk_widget_get_parent (content) == NULL' failed glib_old_log_api=1 priority=4 glib_domain=Adwaita
2025/01/26 22:14:01 ERROR get profile status err="Access denied: profiles access denied"

[diogobaeder]

I tried it here as well and I get the same error as @5calV above.

[5calV]

@DeedleFake if there is any info we could provide or a thing we could try, please let us know :)

[DeedleFake]

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to work on it at the moment. Work's getting ready for a big product release and that's taking all of my time, and on top of it I have a bad cold.

The actual error message originates from here, for the record: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/b60f6b849af1fae1cf343be98f7fb1714c9ea165/ipn/localapi/localapi.go#L994

[exploregithubwifi]

Used flat seal to enable this and it works now.

[hax4dazy]

What fixed it for me was running the sudo tailscale set --operator=$USER command. That even fixed the AUR version of the app for me.

[diogobaeder]

Oh! It did the trick for me too, thanks for the hint, @hax4dazy ! (I also had to "down" and "up" tailscale again after setting my local operator - which is probably obvious, I guess).