Bug on GNU/Linux gnome with the icon and multiple instances

Describe your environment

Please specify the following:

• OS: Fedora 34 with Gnome desktop
• Jami version:202105282159
• What build you are using: jami.net

Steps to reproduce

Note: Better the scenario is, better we will be able to reproduce and debug.

• Can you reproduce the bug: at will
• Steps:
  1. Open jami 2. (You can reopen another Jami)
• Actual result: When I start Jami, it launches well, but the icon is a generic one (not the icon of Jami) and it is written net.jami.jami-qt When lauching from the command line I get:

QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
QDBusMarshaller: type `VectorString' attempts to redefine basic D-BUS type 'as' (QStringList) (Did you forget to call beginStructure() ?)
QDBusMarshaller: type `MapStringVectorString' produces invalid D-BUS signature `a{s}' (Did you forget to call beginStructure() ?)
QDBusMarshaller: type `QMap<QString,MapStringVectorString>' produces invalid D-BUS signature `a{s}' (Did you forget to call beginStructure() ?)

I am also able to lauch several instances of Jami, which is weird.

• Expected result:

Additional information

Several instances

Several instances, view of the icon tray (appindicator extension for gnome)

changed the description

In addition to GNOME, is can also happen with the qt edition on Linux Mint Cinnamon.

#350 (closed)

mentioned in issue #160 (closed)

mentioned in commit 2d8078a0

should be fixed

closed

Thanks a lot! Will the jami build soon updated with this bugfix?

it's already there since a week and from the forum it says it,s fixed

I have the latest build available on from jami.net (for Fedora 34) and it is the Maloya 202106061330. On this version I am running I still have the issue.

And do you have a link to the topic in the forum?

https://forum.jami.net/t/messages-dupliques-une-dizaine-de-fois/772 (in french)

On last version the process can't even launch twice (the run guard will disallow this), so except if you have another version installed (from sources or a snap or whatever) it should not be even possible to get 2 icons.

on your screenshot it seems that the icon fails (first screenshot). Are you sure that there is not another instance installed? What does ps aux | grep dring and ps aux | grep jami give?

Thank you for the link! (french is not a problem for me :))

The multi-instance bug does seem to have been solved. However, there is still the problem of the icon. There is also with a problem with jami running in the background (and the tray icon), but that should be addressed in another issue :)

ps aux | grep dring gives:

username   35631  0.3  0.2 1782700 23312 ?       Ssl  18:08   0:06 /usr/local/lib/ring/dring
username   38317  0.0  0.0 221544   856 pts/0    S+   18:42   0:00 grep --color=auto dring

and ps aux | grep jami gives:

username   38345  0.0  0.0 221412   788 pts/0    S+   18:43   0:00 grep --color=auto jami

Ok for the icon, but can't reproduce on clean VMs

The images loaded by the tray icon is in the classic directories:

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/jami.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/jami.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/jami.xpm

Does those files exists?

All those files exist. Like you can see on my first srceenshots, the way I launch jami is by clicking on the icon.

Ok I may have missed your point. Or mixed several issues.

What is the state today with the icon?

Because so far, you say that the multi-instance is solved, so there is no duplicates now Then you say the the image is there (like first screenshot), so for me this means now that you only see one icon which is correct.

Sorry I may not be very clear. It is like in my first post:

I have the jami icon and i can click on it to launch the program. But when lauching the strange icon appears: jami doesn't open as expected in his own icon.

mmh so I don't have any clue and can't reproduce (tested on fedora 33, 34, ubuntu 20.04, ubuntu 21.04 and suse 15.2) I always have one icon.

Oh. I may have an idea.

/usr/local/lib/ring/dring => this is not from packaged version. Did you already build Jami yourself? Packages from jami.net install dring in /usr/lib64/ring/dring

what gives locate jami-qt and locate dring? I'm 100% sure you have an old install somewhere

Yes I once built jami myself ^^

ok so just clean your environment

Thank you so much for helping out! The strange thing is that I already have cleaned the environment. Is there a way to know what to clean?

depends how you installed in. If it's via the build.py, a --uninstall or --clean should exists

The version I built was jami-gnome so I think it didn't build via the build.py

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41471620/cmake-support-make-uninstall if it was via cmake

I don't know why, but the icon problem seem to be resolved... Some kind of magic happened ^^ Since a recent update, I started Jami again and know the icon appears :)