Bug 474236 - Cannot launch Elisa on Debian 12
Summary: Cannot launch Elisa on Debian 12
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Elisa
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 23.04.3
Platform: Snap Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthieu Gallien
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Reported: 2023-09-06 20:16 UTC by fgg67
Modified: 2023-09-07 16:58 UTC (History)
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Description fgg67 2023-09-06 20:16:10 UTC
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Hello!
I installed Debian 12 with i3 as a DE today coming from Manjaro KDE because it beats hands down other apps.
I first installed it from the aptitude package manager and found it curious to not be able to launch the app from dmenu
Then tried to launch it from the terminal and got this error message:
```
QObject: Cannot create children for a parent that is in a different thread.
(Parent is QApplication(0x7ffd28287d70), parent's thread is QThread(0x558cc5c02640), current thread is QThread(0x558cc5c0fc80)
QObject::installEventFilter(): Cannot filter events for objects in a different thread.
kf.kirigami: Failed to find a Kirigami platform plugin
kf.dbusaddons: DBus session bus not found. To circumvent this problem try the following command (with bash):
    export $(dbus-launch)
```

So I then removed it and installed from snap to get the same error message, so I guess that something related to my distribution went wrong.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install Debian
2. Install Elisa via either Snap or Aptitude (apt)
3. Launch Elisa and see the crash right away

OBSERVED RESULT

The application crashed before it even launches the QTK gui app

EXPECTED RESULT

Elisa should launch gracefully, as my past KDE experience

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: /
macOS: /
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: /
KDE Frameworks Version: /
Qt Version: /

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Keep up the good work !!
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-09-07 16:58:24 UTC
> kf.dbusaddons: DBus session bus not found. To circumvent this problem try the following command (with bash):

The error message indicates that DBus is quite messed up on your system. This will cause a variety of other things to fail in strange ways as well. I'd recommend asking for help with the issue in a Debian-specific forum.