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gnome-tweak-tool package

GNOME Tweak Tool hangs on startup on Artful

Bug #1700811 reported by Till Kamppeter
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

When I try to start GNOME Tweak Tool via

gnome-tweak-tool

on the command line the process starts but never opens a window. It keeps simply running for infinite time.

Tags: artful
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

After some minutes the process terminates and I get the message:

Failed to register: Timeout was reached

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Did it work again the next time you tried to run Tweak Tool?

I've seen Tweak Tool hang on startup when I was testing it and I just killed it and restarted it and it worked the next time for me.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

No, I started it several times and it always hanged.

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Christian Sigl (subjectdenied) wrote :

found this when searching for the same problem on arch-linux, i got it working again by launching tweak-tool and killing dependent python3 processes

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Dylan Taylor (dylanmtaylor) wrote :

I can confirm, hitting this too.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Yuan-Chen Cheng (ycheng-twn)
tags: added: artful
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

Changed in gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

BTW, the correct package for more recent releases is 'gnome-tweaks'.

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