Bug#1051472: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome fails to start on Gnome Wayland

[Christophe Branchereau]

Package: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Version: 44.2-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: cbranchereau at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
Apt-dist up grade upgraded the package to 44.2-2

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

   * What was the outcome of this action?
the portal service does not start anymore

citral at ideapad:~$ systemctl status --user xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service 
× xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service - Portal service (GNOME implementation)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: signal) since Fri 2023-09-08 15:25:15 CEST; 6min ago
    Process: 7539 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
   Main PID: 7539 (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
        CPU: 28ms

Sep 08 15:25:15 ideapad systemd[6365]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service - Portal service (GNOME implementation)...
Sep 08 15:25:15 ideapad xdg-desktop-portal-gnome[7539]: **
Sep 08 15:25:15 ideapad xdg-desktop-portal-gnome[7539]: ERROR:../src/externalwindow-wayland.c:291:init_external_window_wayland_display: assertion failed: (display)
Sep 08 15:25:15 ideapad xdg-desktop-portal-gnome[7539]: Bail out! ERROR:../src/externalwindow-wayland.c:291:init_external_window_wayland_display: assertion failed: (display)
Sep 08 15:25:15 ideapad systemd[6365]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Sep 08 15:25:15 ideapad systemd[6365]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Sep 08 15:25:15 ideapad systemd[6365]: Failed to start xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service - Portal service (GNOME implementation).

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xdg-desktop-portal-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session                            1.14.10-1
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.14.10-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-4
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    44.0-2
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.4~beta-3
ii  libc6                                        2.37-7
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-7
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.14.2-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.77.2-1
ii  libgnome-bg-4-2                              44.0-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-4-2                         44.0-2
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.12.1+ds-2
ii  libwayland-client0                           1.22.0-2
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.8.6-1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal                           1.17.2-1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-gtk                       1.14.1-1

Versions of packages xdg-desktop-portal-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  45~beta-1
ii  gnome-shell            44.4-1

Versions of packages xdg-desktop-portal-gnome suggests:
ii  accountsservice  23.13.9-3
ii  evince           45~alpha-2

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