Junction failing to start due to Gio.js error

[JoshMock]

Forking from #45 (comment)

Junction has stopped working for me, sometime within the last few days. Running re.sonny.Junction from the command line I get the following:

(re.sonny.Junction:21250): Gjs-WARNING **: 10:04:09.835: JS ERROR: TypeError: source is null
_init@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:750:1
@resource:///re/sonny/Junction/common.js:3:25
@file:///usr/bin/re.sonny.Junction:32:6

It never actually seems to launch the window, but the process doesn't exit either.

I run my Arch updates about once a day. Here's a dump of everything pacman upgraded in the past ~10 days, excluding obviously unrelated stuff like Python and Haskell packages, assorted CLI tools, Docker stuff, etc: pacdump.txt

You mentioned a possibly corrupted package, or not rebooting after an update, neither of which appears to be the case. I did a full uninstall of Junction, cleaned my pacman and AUR cache, deleted orphaned packages, then reinstalled Junction, which prompted a fresh reinstall of the following packages:

• js102-102.10.0-1
• libportal-0.6-1
• appstream-glib-0.8.2-2
• blueprint-compiler-0.6.0-2
• gjs-2:1.76.0-1
• libportal-gtk4-0.6-1

This also did not help.

I also tried downgrading the following, and then re-upgraded after it didn't help:

• xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
• gnome-desktop
• gnome-desktop-4

I'm running:

• Junction v1.6-2 via AUR
• Arch Linux 6.3.1-arch1-1
• i3 4.22 (2023-01-02)
• gjs 1.76.0
• gtk4 4.10.3-1
• glib2 2.76.2-1
• gnome-desktop 44.0-1
• xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 44.1-2
• libadwaita 1.3.2-1

Let me know if there are any other debug steps I can take to help clarify the issue. I love Junction and am happy to get my hands dirty. 🖤

[sonnyp]

I'm not doing support for random Arch issues sorry, you'll have to figure it out for yourself.

You're in luck, someone already shared how to fix the issue https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/junction

Please check aur comments before reaching out to maintainers - specially when they don't distribute the aur package.

[antecrescent]

I hope it's okay to necro-bump this issue, but I believe this is a bug beyond "some random Arch issue".
The XDG Base Directory Specification states:

If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ should be used.

...but src/bin.js lacks these entries. I can submit a PR to fix this, if you want.

[sonnyp]

PR welcome