On Sun 24 Jun 2018 at 16:57:29 (+0200), Lucio wrote: > This thing bugs me since a few months. I use XFCE on Debian sid. > Whenever I click a menu item that opens a file dialog, be it open or > save, the application freezes for exactly 25 seconds, then the file > dialog shows up. > > It happens with almost any GUI application, from LibreOffice to > Thunderbird and Google Chrome. > > If I run the program in a terminal it's the same, but at least I get > an error in the terminal just after the 25 seconds expire: > > Error creating proxy: error calling startservicebyname for > org.gtk.vfs.GoaVolumeMonitor: timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, > 24) > > The timeout happens only on the first file dialog opening for each > program session, subsequent ones show up instantly. If I close the > program and open it again, the problem shows up again on the first > file dialog usage. > > Googling for the error yields no exact results (only slightly > different errors). The closer I get is > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-volumed/+bug/1347272 > > but, aside it being in Ubuntu and not Debian, it seems fixed in XFCE > 4.11, and I'm running XFCE 4.12. > > Any clue?
Do you have a symlink from your home/current working directory pointing to a networked file system (like gvfs, in the light of that error message) which the dialog box is trying to resolve before it can display itself? Cheers, David.
