Delay launching programs via desktop shortcuts

Hello, I have recently had develop a non-serious but annoying issue. On starting the system loads as usual and my mouse is working etc. The problem is when I click on (say) the desktop Firefox icon it doesn’t respond (neither does Thunar or Thunderbird). When I say they don’t respond none of the desktop icons react at all. I can access all the programs via the Whisker menu so no probs but strangely about 10-15mins later those icons I clicked on will work ie Firefox opens, Thunderbird will open. Any suggestions? It seemed to have followed a quite major update recently but other than that nothing has changed. System info follows:

  Kernel: 5.12.9-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-x86_64 
  root=UUID=197ff4af-5810-46b0-92bc-b267cfd0b27f rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 vt: 7 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING B550-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1202 date: 10/22/2020 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.3 GiB used: 2.1 GiB (6.7%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache: 
  L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 182142 
  Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2196 2: 2113 3: 2194 4: 2196 5: 2866 6: 2049 7: 2172 8: 2052 9: 3593 
  10: 2052 11: 2194 12: 2196 13: 2054 14: 2194 15: 2196 16: 2193 17: 2196 
  18: 2052 19: 3593 20: 2053 21: 2196 22: 2192 23: 2193 24: 2195 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy 
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm 
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc 
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq 
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse 
  pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni 
  skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp 
  succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_vmsave_vmload 
  vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr 
  xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 465.31 
  alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c82 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 
  screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1680x1050 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 445x278mm (17.5x10.9") 
  s-diag: 525mm (20.7") 
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 
  size: 474x296mm (18.7x11.7") diag: 559mm (22") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 
  v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 465.31 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-3: Creative USB Sound Blaster HD type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 5-2.4:3 chip-ID: 041e:30d7 
  class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.9-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.30 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel 
  port: f000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Permissions: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 5.02 TiB used: 662.59 GiB (12.9%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Seagate 
  model: FireCuda 520 SSD ZP1000GM30002 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: 
  physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD 
  serial: <filter> rev: STNSC014 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRX-22D8PB0 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0A80 scheme: MBR 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1D05 scheme: MBR 
  ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WD20EARX-00PASB0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 2021 scheme: MBR 
  ID-5: /dev/sdh maj-min: 8:112 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade 
  size: 14.33 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: ATAPI model: iHAS324 F rev: CL8M 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%) 
  used: 185.38 GiB (20.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
  label: N/A uuid: 197ff4af-5810-46b0-92bc-b267cfd0b27f 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
  label: NO_LABEL uuid: EB58-C07B 
  ID-3: /home/<filter>/Crypt raw-size: 465.76 GiB size: 457.38 GiB (98.20%) 
  used: 50.13 GiB (11.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: Crypt 
  uuid: 3c0e08cd-6241-4c09-a846-adc6770141a9 
  ID-4: /home/<filter>/Data raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%) 
  used: 427.08 GiB (22.9%) fs: fuseblk dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
  label: WD Green 2TB uuid: E21A34941A3467A5 
  ID-5: /home/<filter>/Shares/music raw-size: N/A size: 1.79 TiB 
  used: 1.4 TiB (78.5%) fs: cifs source: ERR-102 label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-6: /home/<filter>/Shares/photo raw-size: N/A size: 1.79 TiB 
  used: 1.4 TiB (78.5%) fs: cifs source: ERR-102 label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-7: /home/<filter>/Shares/video raw-size: N/A size: 1.79 TiB 
  used: 1.4 TiB (78.5%) fs: cifs source: ERR-102 label: N/A uuid: N/A 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  file: /swapfile 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 1.82 TiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: Music Store uuid: 643E5EAC3E5E76D0 
  ID-2: /dev/sdh1 maj-min: 8:113 size: 14.33 GiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: 8D44-78D1 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Cherry type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 046a:0076 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 1-6:3 info: ASUSTek AURA LED Controller type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 16mA 
  chip-ID: 0b05:1939 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-2: 1-7:4 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-7.2:5 info: Alcor Micro Flash Card Reader/Writer 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 250mA chip-ID: 058f:6362 class-ID: 0806 
  serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 1-7.3:6 info: SanDisk Cruzer Blade type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 200mA 
  chip-ID: 0781:5567 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 3-1:2 info: VIA Labs Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 2109:3431 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-7: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-8: 5-2:2 info: Hitachi ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip-ID: 045b:0209 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-2.4:3 info: Creative USB Sound Blaster HD type: Audio,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 6 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 041e:30d7 class-ID: 0300 
  serial: <filter> 
  Hub-9: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-10: 6-2:2 info: Hitachi ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 045b:0210 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-11: 7-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 7-1:2 info: Logitech M105 Optical Mouse type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 046d:c077 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 7-2:3 info: Western Digital Elements Desktop (WDBAAU) 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 2mA chip-ID: 1058:1021 class-ID: 0806 
  serial: <filter> 
  Hub-12: 8-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 
  speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.8 C mobo: 0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 38 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 30% 
Info:
  Processes: 405 Uptime: 35m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1313 pacman: 1302 lib: 335 flatpak: 11 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.04```

have you tried deleting them then re-adding them back from the menu?(right click>add to desktop)

Hi Kerry_s, and thanks for the response.

That was going to be the plan but (and I didn’t explain this before) when the desktop programs do belatedly appear the desktop icons are also now responsive. So I don’t think the icons themselves are the problem. Annoyingly tonight when I’ve logged in they all seem to be working fine - but this has also been part of the problem. The fault is not consistent.

Thank you again for taking the trouble to reply. I you have any further thoughts please let me know!

Regards,

Martin

I’d check the journal (journalctl --boot=0)or $HOME/.xsessions-errors when it occurs.

Hello Stargazer and thanks for the response.

Will do, but tonight it’s off to bed for me!

Thanks again,

Martin

Hi Stargazer,

No error again this evening so if it doesn’t happen again tomorrow I’ll end this subject and repost if/when it occurs again.

Thanks again,

Martin

No delay in desktop icons or no errors in the journal? :wink:

If you recall when you were having the problem, you can always go back into the journal and check.

Say you boot once a day, and this happened 3 days ago.

journalctl --boot=0   # today
journalctl --boot=-3   # 0, -1, -2, -3
journalctl --list-boots # display all boots

Another troubleshooting option on the journalctl command is -f, --follow (exit: ctrl-c). You’d open up another terminal and run this command to see a stream of the most current messages, while, in this case, clicking on a desktop icon.

I don’t suspect a coredump, but you could always check:

coredumpctl

If the problem happens again, could always bring up the XFCE Task Manager or use htop on the command line to view what is running on your machine that could be using a lot of CPU for some reason. Also check the xorg log. You might see an error like this one in xfce forum.

Glad all seems to be working, but secretively wish I knew why :slight_smile:

Hello stargazer.

Login tonight was without problem and the desktop icons seem to be working as they should. It’s very frustrating as they’ve not been working for a month (possibly) and as soon as I ask for assistance it cures itself.

I did look at the output you suggested but didn’t realise I could back date which might have come in very handy. Nonetheless I have copied your advice into a text file on the desktop and will have it available immediately should this reoccur.

I did have htop running during one or two episodes and (no surprise) I couldn’t spot anything obvious.

What seemed significant to me was that if I clicked Firefox two or three times eventually two or three instances of Firefox would pop up. So the mouse clicks were recognised but somehow this period (and it was a regular period, always the same amount of delay) would occur.

What caused me to check with the Forum was it had been going on for so long and I wanted to know if anyone else had had a similar experience. And because it seemed to start following an update I put two and two together.

Thanks again for taking an interest in my problem and I will certainly report back with full info if it reoccurs.

Regards,

Martin

I did have a look at the

Hello, well it’s happened again tonight. Slightly different in that immediately on login the icons worked then became unresponsive almost immediately (within 10 seconds). I then went to the instructions as given above without making any further actions.

Using the advice by our colleague stargazer above the output is below:

[martin@manjaro ~]$ journalctl --boot=0 # today
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: Linux version 5.12.9-1-MANJARO (builduser@LEGIO>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-x86>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 f>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE r>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX r>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]: 576, xstate_sizes[2>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context s>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000090000-0x0000000000>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000091000-0x0000000000>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x0000000000>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000009>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000009dff000-0x0000000009>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a000000-0x000000000a>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a200000-0x000000000a>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a210000-0x000000000a>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000b000000-0x000000000b>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000b020000-0x00000000c3>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000c3928000-0x00000000c3>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000c3929000-0x00000000c8>
Jul 02 20:00:20 manjaro kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000c8586000-0x00000000c8>

and

[martin@manjaro ~]$ journalctl -f --follow
– Journal begins at Mon 2021-06-14 20:08:16 BST. –
Jul 02 20:01:26 manjaro audit: BPF prog-id=21 op=UNLOAD
Jul 02 20:01:26 manjaro audit: BPF prog-id=20 op=UNLOAD
Jul 02 20:01:26 manjaro audit: BPF prog-id=19 op=UNLOAD
Jul 02 20:01:26 manjaro kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1625252486.398:115): prog-id=21 op=UNLOAD
Jul 02 20:01:26 manjaro kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1625252486.398:116): prog-id=20 op=UNLOAD
Jul 02 20:01:26 manjaro kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1625252486.398:117): prog-id=19 op=UNLOAD
Jul 02 20:01:39 manjaro kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp9s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:18:82:8c:76:ea:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=50862 DF PROTO=2
Jul 02 20:01:39 manjaro kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp9s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:18:82:8c:76:ea:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=50862 DF PROTO=2
Jul 02 20:03:44 manjaro kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp9s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:18:82:8c:76:ea:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=26754 DF PROTO=2
Jul 02 20:03:44 manjaro kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp9s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:18:82:8c:76:ea:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=26754 DF PROTO=2

After 28 minutes the icons have come to life and various windows click results suddenly opened. Below is the additional lines in the journal:

Jul 02 20:26:39 manjaro kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp9s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:18:82:8c:76:ea:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=31068 DF PROTO=2
Jul 02 20:26:39 manjaro kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp9s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:18:82:8c:76:ea:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=31068 DF PROTO=2
Jul 02 20:28:23 manjaro rtkit-daemon[1473]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jul 02 20:28:23 manjaro rtkit-daemon[1473]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jul 02 20:28:28 manjaro rtkit-daemon[1473]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jul 02 20:28:28 manjaro rtkit-daemon[1473]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jul 02 20:28:40 manjaro rtkit-daemon[1473]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jul 02 20:28:40 manjaro rtkit-daemon[1473]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jul 02 20:28:44 manjaro kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp9s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:18:82:8c:76:ea:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=46065 DF PROTO=2
Jul 02 20:28:44 manjaro kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=enp9s0 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:18:82:8c:76:ea:7f:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.254 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=46065 DF PROTO=2

If anyone has any clues to this I’d be mighty grateful! When I click on the desktop icons it didn’t produce anything in the journal logs at all - they appeared to be ‘dead’. BTW right clicking on the icons produces no response either.

Thanks for looking.

Martin

Hello. Help!
This problem is now permanent and getting worse in that less works than before. I had another problem after the recent update to with Nvidia Utils and Light DM but that seems to have resolved itself.
What is frustrating is that my machine is almost completely unresponsive. The desktop icons are still not working and trying to open Thunar through Whisker I just get a frame but the actual file browser never appears. Firefox still seems accessible through Whisker but my external USB drives wont load and generally I’m getting a very frustrated with the whole thing!
I haven’t actually managed to do any work pretty much all week - I’m just playing with the OS which is exactly the opposite of what I came to Linux to do!
My last resort is to do a complete reinstall and see if I can clear whatever this is away and start again.
If anyone has any suggestions before I attempt that I’d be mighty grateful.

Regards,

Martin

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