Problem with Notification Daemon after do-release-upgrade to 24.04

I just did a do-release-upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS

When I login I get a message popup saying:

Notification Daemon crashed too many times. Its autorestart has been disabled until the next login.

How can this be resolved please?
Thanks, David

for the avoidance of doubt I believe this to be lxqt-notificationd.

In that case I am surprised to see that /usr/share/dbus-1/services contains:

org.xfce.FileManager.service
org.xfce.Thunar.FileManager1.service
org.xfce.Thunar.service
org.xfce.Tumbler.Cache1.service
org.xfce.Tumbler.Manager1.service
org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service
org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service
org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifyd.service
org.xfce.Xfconf.service

Is that correct for lxQt ??? I don’t think it is but what do I know?

Any help appreciated.

Hmmm… I ran sudo apt autoremove --purge xfce*

and rebooted, problem has gone - why xfce was installed I don’t understand as I never installed any of the packages that relied upon it that were also removed.

David

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So you’re on Lubuntu? If so, use the lubuntu tag.

Anyways, XFCE used to be part of Lubuntu in the LXDE days. Did you make the unsupported upgrade from LXDE to LXQt back then?

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Did you make the unsupported upgrade from LXDE to LXQt back then?

Not that I am aware of. The 20.04 system which I upgraded was a fresh install. I parked this against install-and-upgrade rather than lubuntu as it only showed up when I did a release-upgrade to 24.04.

You didn’t answer my first question. This is Lubuntu? If so, please add the lubuntu tag.

Assuming it is Lubuntu, LXQt came in 18.10, so if this install was originally 20.04, that’s not the issue. And since you removed all the XFCE packages, we can’t figure out why they got installed, but you installed them somehow. Check the manifest for Lubuntu 20.04 and you’ll see it doesn’t include anything XFCE.

BTW, /var/log/installer/media-info should tell you what your original version was.

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Yes, this is Lubuntu. Tried to add the lubuntu tag but couldn’t work out how to do that.

That file says: Lubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)

Here’s the list of what got removed (from dpkg.log) when I did the apt autoremove --purge xfce*

2025-02-02 13:40:42 remove xfce4:all 4.18 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:42 remove thunar-volman:amd64 4.18.0-1build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:42 remove thunar:amd64 4.18.8-1build3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:42 remove xfdesktop4:amd64 4.18.1-1build3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:43 remove greybird-gtk-theme:all 3.23.3-1 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:43 remove xfce4-session:amd64 4.18.3-1build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:43 remove xfce4-settings:amd64 4.18.4-0ubuntu3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:43 remove xfce4-panel:amd64 4.18.4-1build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:43 remove libgarcon-gtk3-1-0:amd64 4.18.1-1build3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:44 remove libxfce4ui-utils:amd64 4.18.4-1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:44 remove libgtop-2.0-11:amd64 2.41.3-1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:44 remove libgtop2-common:all 2.41.3-1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:44 remove xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:amd64 0.4.8-1build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:44 remove libkeybinder-3.0-0:amd64 0.3.2-1.1build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:44 remove libnotify-bin:amd64 0.8.3-1build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:45 remove libthunarx-3-0:amd64 4.18.8-1build3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:45 remove tumbler:amd64 4.18.1-1.1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:45 remove libtumbler-1-0t64:amd64 4.18.1-1.1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:45 remove xfce4-notifyd:amd64 0.9.4-1 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:45 remove libxfce4panel-2.0-4:amd64 4.18.4-1build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:45 remove libxklavier16:amd64 5.4-5build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:46 remove tango-icon-theme:all 0.8.90-11 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:46 remove thunar-data:all 4.18.8-1build3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:46 remove tumbler-common:all 4.18.1-1.1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:46 remove xfce4-appfinder:amd64 4.18.0-1build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:47 remove xfce4-helpers:amd64 4.18.4-0ubuntu3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:47 remove xfdesktop4-data:all 4.18.1-1build3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:47 remove xiccd:amd64 0.3.0-2build2 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:47 remove exo-utils:amd64 4.18.0-1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:47 remove libexo-2-0:amd64 4.18.0-1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:48 remove libexo-common:all 4.18.0-1build4 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:48 remove libgarcon-1-0:amd64 4.18.1-1build3 <none>
2025-02-02 13:40:48 remove libgarcon-common:all 4.18.1-1build3 <none>

I don’t recognise any of those as packages I installed.

David

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I get that. They were probably installed by you installing something else. We could look up hypothetical possibilities but the true answer was removed when you removed them from the system. That said, I’d probably mark the removal as your solution and close this topic.

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