Software Center Broke

brent

infinitymdm all good i do it all the time!

brent

still a heck of a mystery.
why do you both (infinitymdm tomscharbach ) find the gtk icon error insignificant? why is plasma referencing budgie xml metadata (for lack of a better term) at all when launching the gui from the menu?
edit: from the terminal I mean
the shortcut in menu can't be accessed

infinitymdm

brent why do you [...] find the gtk icon error insignificant?

Actually, I don't find it insignificant. I thought that perhaps it could be the cause of the issue. But now that tomscharbach has shown his works with the same error (launched from terminal or Kickoff) I think we can eliminate that as a root cause.

Now I suspect what brent theorized earlier: a misconfigured desktop file.

Here are the contents of my desktop file at /usr/share/applications/solus-sc.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Software Center
GenericName=Software Center
Comment=Install, Remove and Update System Software
Exec=/usr/bin/solus-sc
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=system-software-install
Categories=X-GNOME-Settings-Panel;PackageManager;System;Settings
Keywords=Updates;Upgrade;Sources;Repositories;Preferences;Install;Uninstall;Program;Software;App;Store;
Actions=view-updates;

[Desktop Action view-updates]
Name=Updates
Exec=solus-sc --update-view

@BruceElephant if yours doesn't match that, perhaps that is our culprit.

Axios

https://dev.getsol.us/T4306
Has there been no software updates lately
https://discuss.getsol.us/d/3089-software-center-not-opening/3
https://dev.getsol.us/D370

Harvey

That task is ancient and has absolutely nothing to do with this users current issue. The lines about applets are warnings not errors and will occur regardless of your DE. They can be ignored.

brent

infinitymdm you are right, you and tom could launch SC from the menu---so these warnings are neglibile/moot. I dont have plasma for context.
solus-sc.desktop may have a clue in it. There's a few ways one can wreck that file.

Harvey

Any modification to /usr/share/applications/solus-sc.desktop would have been caught by sudo eopkg check and reported solus-sc as Broken. Since the user has already run that command and everything is reporting as "OK" now, it clearly isn't the cause.

infinitymdm

Harvey Good to know. Just working within the limits of my own knowledge here. I appreciate the help expanding those limits a tad 👍️

brent

Harvey
interesting; did not know something like that would be check - detected.. I think noto-sans ttf was the only thing that BTE's check found. I keep thinking 'cant launch app from menu' is easy somehow😉.

edit: nevermind it was fleeting

tomscharbach

brent ... noto-sans ttf ...

That shows up every time, update, no update, whatever.

Checking integrity of noto-sans-ttf Broken
Missing file: /usr/share/fonts/conf.d/66-noto-color-emoji.conf

I ignore it.

BruceElephant

I have installed papirus-icon-set, switched to it (possibly not necessary) and tried running the Software Center from Kickoff and from the terminal.

It still does not run when launched from Kickoff.

It runs when launched from the terminal with the same output MINUS the last line so, basically, there is no complaint about the icon set anymore, not that it matters much. : )

infinitymdm

BruceElephant yeah, I figured that wasn't the root cause after Tom mentioned he could run just fine despite the error about the icon. Unfortunately, I'm out of troubleshooting ideas.

brent

infinitymdm
me too.
sudo eopkg rdb? with a dc andrmo thrown to mop up loose ends?
I think removal and reinstallation of software center too insane of an idea even for me

infinitymdm

brent I think removal and reinstallation of software center too insane of an idea even for me

Actually, I think this is a great idea. Should be as simple as sudo eopkg it --reinstall solus-sc

BruceElephant

brent You Sir! are a genius! sudo eopkg rdb coupled with dc and rmo helped! \o/

brent

infinitymdm it makes too much sense to work🙂

brent

BruceElephant in professional football parlance that was a hail mary....

in my experience sudo eopkg rm fancypackageisn't always perfect and there is debris from time to time so dc and rmo is part of my housekeeping...

...but rebuilding database is one of those weird cures when nothing else worked I have observed.
I'm happy you can launch your app from the menu...but I'm really enjoying your word for it: the kickoff button. I might even use that myself here on out.

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