Dropbox daemon errors under Sway #4185

Gastove · 2019-05-26T19:14:31Z

Hello!

I'm new to sway, but I'm finding it to be utterly fantastic. Thus far, I've only hit one challenge: a tiny red frowny-face at the corner of my screen any time the Dropbox daemon is running.

The daemon is, in fact, working -- as in, Dropbox is running, files are syncing. However, it appears to be erroring trying to draw icons. From Sway debug output, I see this:

2019-05-26 12:04:14 - [sway/desktop/transaction.c:280] Applying transaction 0xed51c0
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/host.c:24] Registering Status Notifier Item ':1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006'
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] :1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006 IconPixmap: No such property “IconPixmap”
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] :1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006 AttentionIconPixmap: No such property “AttentionIconPixmap”
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] :1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006 ItemIsMenu: No such property “ItemIsMenu”
2019-05-26 12:04:19 - [swaybar/tray/item.c:127] :1.68/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11006 IconPixmap: No such property “IconPixmap”

Looking at #3249, I had expected Dropbox would "just work." The icon does not appear at all, and that's fine with me -- I have other tools to learn about Dropbox's status, I just need it running.

I'm running Sway on Fedora 30, and building it myself from current master -- which means it's entirely possible I'm building it incorrectly.

I'd love advice on how to proceed. Have I built sway incorrectly? Is Dropbox just misbehaving? Is there any other detail I can provide to help debug? Please let me know!

Such details as I have right now:
Sway Version:

$ swaymsg -t get_version
sway version 1.1-rc1-15-ge92ac7d5 (May 25 2019, branch 'master')

Build configuration

The Meson build system
Version: 0.50.1
Source dir: /home/gastove/Code/open-source/sway
Build dir: /home/gastove/Code/open-source/sway/build
Build type: native build
Project name: sway
Project version: 1.0
Native C compiler: cc (gcc 9.1.1 "cc (GCC) 9.1.1 20190503 (Red Hat 9.1.1-1)")
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Dependency json-c found: YES (cached)
Dependency libpcre found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-server found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-client found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-cursor found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-egl found: YES (cached)
Dependency wayland-protocols found: YES (cached)
Dependency xkbcommon found: YES (cached)
Dependency cairo found: YES (cached)
Dependency pango found: YES (cached)
Dependency pangocairo found: YES (cached)
Dependency gdk-pixbuf-2.0 found: YES (cached)
Dependency pixman-1 found: YES (cached)
Dependency libevdev found: YES (cached)
Dependency libinput found: YES (cached)
Dependency libsystemd found: YES (cached)
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.6.1)
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.14.4)
Dependency libelogind found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Dependency xcb found: YES (cached)
Library m found: YES
Library rt found: YES
Program git found: YES (/usr/bin/git)
Subproject directory not found and wlroots.wrap file not found
Subproject  subprojects/wlroots is buildable: NO (disabling)
Dependency wlroots found: YES (cached)
Fetching value of define "WLR_HAS_XWAYLAND" with dependency wlroots: 1
Dependency scdoc found: YES (cached)
Program /usr/bin/scdoc found: YES (/usr/bin/scdoc)
Program sh found: YES (/usr/bin/sh)
Configuring config.h using configuration
Program wayland-scanner found: YES (/usr/bin/wayland-scanner)
Configuring config using configuration
Configuring 00-defaults using configuration
Message:
Features:
xwayland: true
gdk-pixbuf: true
systemd: true
elogind: false
tray: true
man-pages: true

Build targets in project: 17
Found ninja-1.9.0 at /usr/bin/ninja

Sway Bar Configuration
Here's the MWE bar configuration I've been debugging with.

bar {
    position bottom
    status_command while date +'%Y-%m-%d %l:%M:%S %p'; do sleep 1; done
}

Thanks very much!

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emersion · 2019-05-27T05:05:17Z

Looks like we can't find an icon for the app. I wonder if this is something you can debug with d-feet.

Gastove · 2019-05-27T15:51:47Z

@emersion I'm game to try. Any guidance on what I'm looking for?

emersion · 2019-06-01T14:42:04Z

I'm not sure, I don't know d-feet well. Maybe it can't show an object from an object ID.

Gastove · 2019-06-01T16:04:34Z

So far, d-feet is... really an experience. If I run it as an unprivileged user, it doesn't have enough perms to view Dropbox proc info; if I run it as root, it can't find all its libraries and explodes. I'll keep digging as I can, but thus far progress is slow.

emersion · 2019-06-01T16:05:44Z

Maybe dbus-monitor could help

Gastove · 2019-06-01T21:54:24Z

dbus-monitor sure has a lot to say about the icon that can't be found:

method call time=1559425949.010589 sender=:1.4 -> destination=:1.55 serial=106 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Get
   string "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem"
   string "IconPixmap"
method call time=1559425949.010600 sender=:1.4 -> destination=:1.55 serial=107 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Get
   string "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem"
   string "IconThemePath"
error time=1559425949.010756 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs reply_serial=106
   string "No such property “IconPixmap”"
method return time=1559425949.011371 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 serial=52 reply_serial=105
   variant       string "dropboxstatus-busy"
method return time=1559425949.011392 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 serial=53 reply_serial=107
   variant       string "/home/rdonaldson/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-73.4.118/images"
signal time=1559425949.510283 sender=:1.55 -> destination=(null destination) serial=54 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.kde.StatusNotifierItem; member=NewIcon
method call time=1559425949.510378 sender=:1.4 -> destination=:1.55 serial=108 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Get
   string "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem"
   string "IconName"
method call time=1559425949.510405 sender=:1.4 -> destination=:1.55 serial=109 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Get
   string "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem"
   string "IconPixmap"
method call time=1559425949.510425 sender=:1.4 -> destination=:1.55 serial=110 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Get
   string "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem"
   string "IconThemePath"
method return time=1559425949.510901 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 serial=55 reply_serial=108
   variant       string "dropboxstatus-busy2"
error time=1559425949.510938 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs reply_serial=109
   string "No such property “IconPixmap”"
method return time=1559425949.511496 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 serial=57 reply_serial=110
   variant       string "/home/rdonaldson/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-73.4.118/images"
signal time=1559425949.701666 sender=:1.55 -> destination=(null destination) serial=58 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.kde.StatusNotifierItem; member=NewIcon
method call time=1559425949.702137 sender=:1.4 -> destination=:1.55 serial=111 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Get
   string "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem"
   string "IconName"
method call time=1559425949.702158 sender=:1.4 -> destination=:1.55 serial=112 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Get
   string "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem"
   string "IconPixmap"
method call time=1559425949.702168 sender=:1.4 -> destination=:1.55 serial=113 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_23254; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=Get
   string "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem"
   string "IconThemePath"
error time=1559425949.702338 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs reply_serial=112
   string "No such property “IconPixmap”"
method return time=1559425949.703365 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 serial=60 reply_serial=111
   variant       string "dropboxstatus-idle"
method return time=1559425949.703386 sender=:1.55 -> destination=:1.4 serial=61 reply_serial=113
   variant       string "/home/rdonaldson/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-73.4.118/images"

Gastove · 2019-06-01T22:06:13Z

It does appear to have found the right base path; that dropbox-dist folder does have all the images needed:

$ exa -T .dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-73.4.118/images/
.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-73.4.118/images
├── emblems
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-app.icon
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-app.svg
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-infinite.icon
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-infinite.png
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-mixedstate.icon
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-mixedstate.png
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-selsync.icon
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-selsync.png
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-syncing.icon
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-syncing.png
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-unsyncable.icon
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-unsyncable.png
│  ├── emblem-dropbox-uptodate.icon
│  └── emblem-dropbox-uptodate.png
└── hicolor
   └── 16x16
      └── status
         ├── dropboxstatus-blank.png
         ├── dropboxstatus-busy.png
         ├── dropboxstatus-busy2.png
         ├── dropboxstatus-idle.png
         ├── dropboxstatus-logo.png
         └── dropboxstatus-x.png

ianyfan · 2019-06-08T23:14:59Z

Hello. Sorry I'm a bit late to this. If this is still an issue, could you please provide the output to busctl --user introspect <service name> <object path> org.kde.StatusNotifierItem? Thanks.

Gastove · 2019-06-09T18:59:43Z

@ianyfan I'm happy to! However, it's not totally transparent to me what variables to parse in to the command you're suggesting. In busctl list, I do see dropbox -- seems an obvious fit for <service name> -- but I'm not clear on what the <object path> should be. Any guidance? (I've tried plugging in variation of /org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_$pid, to no success.)

Gastove · 2019-06-09T19:10:55Z

Oh wait here we go -- dropbox isn't the service name:

$ busctl --user list | grep dropbox
:1.44                                             11221 dropbox         gastove          :1.44         session-5.scope           5          -
:1.45                                             11221 dropbox         gastove          :1.45         session-5.scope           5          -

I didn't catch that the names are actually :1.44 and :1.45. Here's some busctl output for them; lemme know if this is what you were looking for?

gastove@croquette-localdomain  ~/ λ
$ busctl --user introspect :1.44 "/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11221" org.kde.StatusNotifierItem
NAME TYPE SIGNATURE RESULT/VALUE FLAGS

gastove@croquette-localdomain ~/ λ
$ busctl --user introspect :1.45 "/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_11221" org.kde.StatusNotifierItem
NAME                       TYPE      SIGNATURE RESULT/VALUE                             FLAGS
.Scroll                    method    is        -                                        -
.SecondaryActivate         method    ii        -                                        -
.XAyatanaSecondaryActivate method    u         -                                        -
.AttentionAccessibleDesc   property  s         ""                                       emits-change
.AttentionIconName         property  s         ""                                       emits-change
.Category                  property  s         "ApplicationStatus"                      emits-change
.IconAccessibleDesc        property  s         ""                                       emits-change
.IconName                  property  s         "dropboxstatus-idle"                     emits-change
.IconThemePath             property  s         "/home/gastove/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-ln… emits-change
.Id                        property  s         "dropbox-client-11221"                   emits-change
.Menu                      property  o         "/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_… emits-change
.Status                    property  s         "Active"                                 emits-change
.Title                     property  s         "dropbox"                                emits-change
.XAyatanaLabel             property  s         ""                                       emits-change
.XAyatanaLabelGuide        property  s         ""                                       emits-change
.XAyatanaOrderingIndex     property  u         0                                        emits-change
.NewAttentionIcon          signal    -         -                                        -
.NewIcon                   signal    -         -                                        -
.NewIconThemePath          signal    s         -                                        -
.NewStatus                 signal    s         -                                        -
.NewTitle                  signal    -         -                                        -
.XAyatanaNewLabel          signal    ss        -                                        -

mijoharas · 2019-06-12T23:06:34Z

Hi, one data point that might help. I have the same issue, which disappears when using waybar ( https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar ). It also fixes the issues I have around context menus showing up on the applets (though the build I'm using puts them in the center of the screen).

Happy to dig in and provide any further information if you'd like.

ianyfan · 2019-06-13T07:59:05Z

I think the problem is that the way I wrote the icon lookup for applications that supply "IconThemePath" only checks the top-level directory that is provided, when in this case, the icon is in a subdirectory instead.

@Gastove Can you check this by running busctl --user get-property <service name> <object path> org.kde.StatusNotifierItem IconThemePath?

Gastove · 2019-06-13T16:46:32Z

@ianyfan sure thing:

$ busctl --user list | grep dropbox
:1.14                                                         2510 dropbox         rdonaldson       :1.14         session-2.scope           2          -
:1.15                                                         2510 dropbox         rdonaldson       :1.15         session-2.scope           2          -

$ busctl --user get-property :1.14 "/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_2510" org.kde.
StatusNotifierItem IconThemePath
No such interface 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties' at object path '/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_2510'

$ busctl --user get-property :1.15 "/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/dropbox_client_2510" org.kde.
StatusNotifierItem IconThemePath
s "/home/rdonaldson/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-74.4.115/images"

ianyfan · 2019-06-15T12:22:43Z

@Gastove Try this branch: https://github.com/ianyfan/sway/tree/swaybar

Gastove · 2019-06-17T16:34:51Z

@ianyfan That looks better! Dropbox icon appears. It isn't interactive (e.g., clicking on it does nothing), but I have no idea if I should expect clicks to work. Does this seem right to you?

morxa · 2019-11-21T13:19:53Z

One of the Fedora maintainers here. Is there a particular reason why this hasn't been merged?

tbm · 2020-01-03T15:16:39Z

another ping. @ianyfan any reason this hasn't been merged?

ianyfan · 2020-03-02T15:58:28Z

This has been fixed by #4532

ianyfan closed this as completed Mar 2, 2020

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