Weird hangups whenever File Manager (file selection specifically) is involved with GNOME

Hi, first and foremost I’m on Bazzite Stable with GNOME (based on Fedora 42 Silverblue):

rpm-ostree status                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-gnome:stable
                   Digest: sha256:80f7a914d94fec655a7e0ceec8cdaddde0572b9164ca316936704e39315a6acb
                  Version: 42.20250522.1 (2025-05-22T07:08:36Z)
          LayeredPackages: coolercontrol corectrl lact

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-gnome:stable
                   Digest: sha256:63cb02ea2918fb99fd76f8ba7515c9ffe9111ff52aa9779ae09e8d49a6666b38
                  Version: 42.20250519 (2025-05-19T05:19:52Z)
          LayeredPackages: coolercontrol corectrl lact

I have an odd situation that I can’t seem to find the root cause of - at first I thought this only affected Google Chrome flatpak, but today same exact thing happened with GNOME Settings while trying to import a VPN config from file.

This seems to happen whenever I try to have a file selected (be it as an attachment for email, or config selection for NetworkManager), File Manager comes up but after selecting the file and pressing ok/select/whatever… nothing happens and the application or window just hangs up (the app/window is still responsive and functioning) it’s just like it’s blocked by an invisible prompt … pressing ESC on keyboard has no effect the only way to access it is to Quit/Exit or kill the app/window and just start it up again (Note that repeating the process just ends with it hung up/stuck again).

And journalctl -f doesn’t show any errors popping up whenever that happens. I can’t tell if it’s something with sandboxing, Wayland or a GNOME extension causing this.

And when it comes to Extensions, I try to use only what I need to.

As one last note - I use Bluefin Stable on my laptop and I haven’t encountered this there just yet.

Perhaps related?

I see your image is from 0522, so would have thought you’d have the fix. Could be a different problem.

That indeed looks just like what I’m experiencing. Running it from terminal gives me this:

flatpak run com.google.Chrome
[0526/160451.373095:WARNING:chrome/app/chrome_main_linux.cc:80] Read channel stable from /app/extra/CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA
[0526/160451.489079:WARNING:chrome/app/chrome_main_linux.cc:80] Read channel stable from /app/extra/CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA
Gtk-Message: 16:04:51.546: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 16:04:51.547: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
[58:58:0526/160455.127321:ERROR:gpu/command_buffer/service/gles2_cmd_decoder_passthrough.cc:1092] [GroupMarkerNotSet(crbug.com/242999)!:A02029002C370000]Automatic fallback to software WebGL has been deprecated. Please use the --enable-unsafe-swiftshader flag to opt in to lower security guarantees for trusted content.
Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU.
Attempting to use a delegate that only supports static-sized tensors with a graph that has dynamic-sized tensors (tensor#-1 is a dynamic-sized tensor).
[2:42:0526/160501.704525:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2:42:0526/160525.838306:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT

Oh and when it hangs up and I terminate it from terminal it spews out this:

^C
[2 preload-host-spawn-strategy] Dropping 0x13400004c600 (3) because of connection closed                                                                                                                                                                                                   
[2:44:0526/160754.569082:FATAL:dbus/bus.cc:1248] D-Bus connection was disconnected. Aborting.
[2:139:0526/160754.569251:FATAL:dbus/bus.cc:1248] D-Bus connection was disconnected. Aborting.
[0526/160754.569220:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/scoped_ptrace_attach.cc:27] ptrace: Operation not permitted (1)

Also tried resetting Google Chrome permissions in Flatseal without changes.

OMG, I should have tried the first step in troubleshooting… :man_facepalming:

Rebooted and the issue is gone. I must have had my PC running for longer than I thought.

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