Bitcoin-Qt 0.6.2 for Ubuntu 12.04 invisible in systray, no global menu #1242
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Same problem here. It would usually show up in the system tray and I would have a menu -- until I encrypted my wallet. Now there's no menu on the top bar of Unity, and nowit doesn't appear either in the system tray or in the side bar menu. Also (different issue, but I'll stick it in this comment and let a dev decide what to do with it): The .lock file is not removed on exit. Therefore starting Bitcoin-Qt will fail unless I go in and manually delete the lock file from the ./bitcoin directory. |
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I have the same problem: no icon in the top panel (system tray?) on Linux Mint, Gnome Desktop. Bitcoin-qt is running, though (can see it in process list and it's updating the log). The only way I know to get the Bitcon-qt window is to stop the process and restart it. This appeared just recently, some time after installyng 0.6.2, for no apparent reason (other than maybe updating the system). |
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Could you guys try with a clean data-dir and see if there is anything special in the debug.log. Seems to be a weird issue, as our GUI-master is on Ubuntu, too I guess... |
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If clean data-dir, then the problem disappears. |
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Which directory is data-dir? I tried cleaning (deleting) ~/.bitcoin but bitcoin wouldn't start after that. Then I had to restore the directory from an old backup (from 3 weeks ago, that is before the problem and probably before the 0.6.2 upgrade). The problem is still there. |
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I described my problem in a bit more detail here: |
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This is also a problem in 0.6.3 |
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@rebroad Is this true with a clean data-dir? What are your observations with current Git master? |
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@Diapolo This is also a problem with current git master also. If I delete ~/.bitcoin then the tray icon does appear, but a few seconds after the main window appears (once blocks start downloading). |
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Can you post a screenshot that shows the missing menu and tray-icon? Perhaps @laanwj Should take a look at this, I guess he is also using Linux, while I'm on Windows. Hard to debug, as on Windows this is not an issue. |
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@Diapolo I don't really understand the reason for the screenshot request, but can provide one if you tell me where to upload it to. |
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I don't want to see the "no tray-icon" ^^, but want to ensure which menu is missing, as I was not sure about that one. Just use http://tinypic.com for such a thing. |
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@Diapolo the only thing that shows is the icon on far left for restoring windows.there are no menus nor a tray icon. |
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I'm running on 12.04 and though I don't have this specific issue, I had another issue with Unity, with minimized windows that refused to come back: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1001498 . But they didn't take it serious upstream. I find it strange that Unity manages to mess up a well-behaved Qt program. The problem is that Unity hooks plugins into various things (qt menu, qt tray icon, application management) which are in varying states of maturity. You might (or might not) have luck building it yourself instead of using the static build. |
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I'm also having this problem, using the Bitcoin from the bitcoin.org-recommended PPA on Ubuntu 12.04. I had the tray icon for a little bit when I started with a clean ~/.bitcoin, but then I copied over my wallet.dat and it started downloading blocks, and today my menu and tray icon are gone. Is there any sort of debug information I can provide? |
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@interfect can you try building from source, and see whether it still happens? |
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Is there a single, unified page that explains exactly what packages to On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Wladimir J. van der Laan <
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doc/readme-qt.rst |
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Also there's the packages: appmenu-qt sni-qt Those provide plugins for qt to export the appmenu and tray icon respectively to unity. Maybe try installing/uninstalling/upgrading them. |
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I tried to remove package I also noticed that when I try to execute bitcoin-qt again, the program throw me an error because is already running, while this error message is shown, appears the tray icon, when I close the error message box, the tray icon disappears. |
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It would be wonderful if someone knowledgeable in the intricacies of Unity could look at this. I cannot help you further here, and my previous tries to get help from the Unity team weren't exactly succesful. Also I still cannot reproduce the problem. Can you try out the .tar.gz blob and deinstalling the .deb package? I think this will work around the problem for now as the .tar.gz isn't linked against any of the fancy stuff |
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I reported this as a bug against appmenu-qt, no response from the devs On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Wladimir J. van der Laan <
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I suspect it has something to do with Unity regarding the first window opened somehow as main window. In the case of bitcoin this is the splash screen. Getting rid of the splash screen is on the TODO list (#1028), so if that's the case the problem will solve itself eventually. |
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That could be it. Of the two Qt apps I use that exhibit Unity menu issues Are there any Qt apps with splash screens in the official Ubuntu On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Wladimir J. van der Laan <
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This happens also to me in Ubuntu 12.10 with Bitcoin version v0.8.1.0-g34d62a8-beta. There's something curious about it: when I launch it for the first time after a reboot, the splash screen lasts for longer, and both menus and tray icon are hidden after application launch. If I close the application and launch it a second time, it takes less time, and both menu and tray icon appear. Even when the menu bar is invisible, I can press and release the alt key quickly to get the HUD, and access the menu entries from there by typing. I believe the time it takes between launching the application and having the main window appear is key to solve this issue. There's probably a time limit somewhere that is being reached. |
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The time limit idea is interesting. 0.8 starts up much faster than 0.7 did,
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Interesting, so a time limit may be part of the picture. Though this is confusing, and would make this impossible to fix 100% in cases as linux is not a hard realtime OS. And bitcoin certainly isn't the only program that can be slow to start. I wonder if there is a way to hold off the time limit. |
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I have the same problem with ubuntu 12.10, and bitcoin-qt 0.8.1-quantal1, the incon only appears sometimes but generally it doesnt appears. |
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Perhaps fixed already with current master or fixed with #2530. |
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This issue is so strange, |
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I confirm that on Ubuntu 13.04 even though appindicator and global menu doesnt work, the HUD works if you press ALT, and if you exit through hud and rerun the app, it starts much faster and the problem dissapears. The appindicator and global menu show up and everything is ok. |
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@themighty1 Can you try with #2672? What Qt version is Bitcoin-Qt using? |
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@Diapolo. Using latest stable bitcoin-qt, with Qt 4.8.1 |
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Issue still exists. Was using all newest bitcoin-qt versions and Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04, 13.10 |
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I notice that the ppcoin-qt project has this problem cleared up, yet it appears to be a similar code-base. Litecoin-qt doesn't, though. |
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Can we get their patch merged back? What did they do? On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM, dooglio notifications@github.com wrote:
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No matter which fork. If wallet is small, there is no issue. When it grows to 400KB issue is reproducing sometimes. If wallet.dat is 1MB or more - reproduces always |
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Thank for posting that observation @br0x, that's the first that may give some hope to reproduce this issue. |
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I had this problem as well today, no global menu... edit: damn, but I can't reproduce it, not even by putting sleeps() in the wallet verification nd handling; it only happened once One guess is that the GUI is unresponsive to events while starting up. Initialization blocks the GUI thread. Maybe that causes some kind of menu registration to time out. In that case the solution would be to run AppInit2 in a thread instead. |
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For the people that can reproduce this: does providing the -nosplash option help? |
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Please help testing #3493. If my gut feeling is right that they're caused by timeouts, it solves the menu and icon issues. |
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@laanwj |
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Must be a temporary fluke with github, that sometimes happens, try again later. |
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@laanwj |
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Thanks for testing @br0x |
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Closing by #3493 |
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This problem is back in the last version |
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While at it mark the current version as a prerelease (it should be always like that for the dev branch).
…ivkey and importaddress ce93872 [Trivial][RPC] Fix example line in importprivkey help (missing arg) (random-zebra) 96bdd3e [Tests] Add wallet_import_stakingaddress to test runner (random-zebra) d1ebf2e [Tests] Add functional test for import staking address/key (random-zebra) 3bd5579 [RPC] Add coldstaking address support in importaddress (random-zebra) 144ec35 [RPC] Add coldstaking address support in importprivkey (random-zebra) Pull request description: Still it remains to add proper support in `dumpwallet` and `importwallet` ACKs for top commit: Fuzzbawls: ACK ce93872 Tree-SHA512: 604a19ca1942ef972ab05360823701021dcc9e12243859514a4196b36789ff06613541bbe7b5302409fb1056375186713af1a9a3ed01afb3806426bac3bed456
After the update, the program does not appear in the system tray. Also there is no global menu.
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