MX 19.4 xfce 64bit - Updater crashes after being in Synaptic and closing it

Help for Current Versions of MX
When asking for help, use Quick System Info from MX Tools. It will be properly formatted using the following steps.
1. Click on Quick System Info in MX Tools
2. Right click in your post and paste.
Forum rules
Post Reply
Message
Author
madmax25
Posts: 334
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2020 12:40 pm

MX 19.4 xfce 64bit - Updater crashes after being in Synaptic and closing it

#1 Post by madmax25 »

Looks like I have several issues with the MX-Updater, currently.

when I open Synaptic using the tray icon of the Updater, look for something (no matter, what...) and close Synaptic again, the icon of the updater instantly disappears.

How can I fix this, please?

Maybe, I should add, that I'm using Compiz, not sure, if that's of any relevance.

EDIT:
Indeed, this issue seems to be related to Compiz, as it doesn't happen with the ordinary xfwm4 window manager.

Code: Select all

System:    Kernel: 5.8.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8.0-3-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splashintel_idle.max_cstate=1 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: Compiz 0.8.18 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.4_x64 patito feo March 31  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.I0 date: 06/26/2018 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S 
           family: 6 model-id: 5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: F0 cache: L2: 8 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 63999 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 
           5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
           STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           chip-ID: 10de:1401 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Creative Live! Cam Chat HD [VF0700] type: USB 
           driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3.2:6 chip-ID: 041e:4097 
           class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 compositor: compiz v: 0.8.18 driver: loaded: nvidia 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x286mm (40.0x11.3") 
           s-diag: 1055mm (41.6") 
           Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") 
           diag: 686mm (27") 
           Monitor-2: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93 size: 527x296mm (20.7x11.7") 
           diag: 604mm (23.8") 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.45.01 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio 
           vendor: Micro-Star MSI 100 Series/C230 Series Family driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM206 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fba class-ID: 0403 
           Device-3: Creative Live! Cam Chat HD [VF0700] type: USB 
           driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3.2:6 chip-ID: 041e:4097 
           class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.8.0-3-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 12.2 running: yes 
           Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.2.5 running: no 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82574L Gigabit Network driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: d000 
           bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:10d3 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: TP-Link type: USB driver: rtl8812au bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 2357:010d 
           class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB driver: btusb 
           v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-9:5 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0 
           sub-v: 22bb hci-v: 4.0 rev: 22bb 
           Info: acl-mtu: 310:10 sco-mtu: 64:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 4.09 TiB used: 2.53 TiB (61.9%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM000-1F2168 size: 3.64 TiB 
           block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5900 
           serial: <filter> rev: CC54 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 40.83 GiB size: 39.9 GiB (97.70%) used: 31.58 GiB (79.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda12 maj-min: 8:12 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) used: 31.4 MiB (32.7%) 
           fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
           ID-3: /home raw-size: 62.53 GiB size: 61.25 GiB (97.95%) used: 53.74 GiB (87.7%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda13 maj-min: 8:13 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 31.25 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: 29.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 61 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 22% 
Repos:     Packages: 2856 note: see --pkg apt: 2806 lib: 1532 flatpak: 50 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb https://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/linux/distributions/mx/packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 305 Uptime: 6h 39m wakeups: 1 Memory: 31.33 GiB used: 4.62 GiB (14.8%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 
           alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in default: Bash v: 5.0.3 running-in: quick-system-in 
           inxi: 3.3.06
Top
User avatar
fehlix
Developer
Posts: 12916
Joined: Wed Apr 11, 2018 5:09 pm

Re: MX 19.4 xfce 64bit - Updater crashes after being in Synaptic and closing it

#2 Post by fehlix »

madmax25 wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 5:46 pm Indeed, this issue seems to be related to Compiz, as it doesn't happen with the ordinary xfwm4 window manager.
Hmme, cannot reproduce. I just tested on a fairly actual MX-19.4 with compiz,
the green/black-wire updater icon would always be visible, regardless what actions in synaptic have been done.
In case the issue is reproduceable:

* Would the updater-icon show again, when restarting from the menu, or after logout/login?

* Anything shown on the command line, when (re-)starting mx-updater in terminal (as normal user) like this:

Code: Select all

apt-notifier
Top
madmax25
Posts: 334
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2020 12:40 pm

Re: MX 19.4 xfce 64bit - Updater crashes after being in Synaptic and closing it

#3 Post by madmax25 »

I just woke up (I've been sleeping all day long ;) ), booted my desktop computer and tried to crash the MX Updater again, but now it doesn't.

When it chrashes, I just have to restart it again from the Menu without logout/login.
In such a case, I just open the Menu, enter Updater and click MX Updater of the given suggestions.

Appearently, it doesn't happen always and I'm not sure when exactly it does.

I tried to close it manually and restart it in the terminal using this command:

Code: Select all

/usr/bin/apt-notifier-unhide-Icon
which is the same as in the Menu, when I open Edit application
but I didn't get any output.

After that I went into Synaptic and closed it, but nothing happened, the icon was still there.
Top
Post Reply

Return to “MX Help”