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Megalodonix

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Registered: 2024-03-12

Posts: 18

[SOLVED] Plasma Wayland, xdg-desktop-portal-wlr fails to start

Hello,

So attempting to run

systemctl --user start xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

outputs this:

Job for xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service" and "journalctl --user -xeu xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service" for details.

Here are the outputs of both commands:

× xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service - Portal service (wlroots implementation)
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-03-13 00:55:38 +03; 3min 16s ago
 Invocation: 6c82c8bbf5024ae19a760a4fee295a99
    Process: 74544 ExecStart=/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 74544 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 13 00:55:38 motherbase systemd[879]: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Mar 13 00:55:38 motherbase systemd[879]: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 13 00:55:38 motherbase systemd[879]: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 13 00:55:38 motherbase systemd[879]: Failed to start Portal service (wlroots implementation).

░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished with a failure.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 14758 and the job result is failed.
Mar 13 00:55:38 motherbase systemd[879]: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
░░ Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ Automatic restarting of the unit UNIT has been scheduled, as the result for
░░ the configured Restart= setting for the unit.
Mar 13 00:55:38 motherbase systemd[879]: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 13 00:55:38 motherbase systemd[879]: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ The unit UNIT has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 13 00:55:38 motherbase systemd[879]: Failed to start Portal service (wlroots implementation).
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished with a failure.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 14780 and the job result is failed.

Most results suggested checking if there are any issues with Pipewire, but there are no issues with Pipewire as far as I know...

Last edited by Megalodonix (2025-03-13 02:14:08)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,261

Re: [SOLVED] Plasma Wayland, xdg-desktop-portal-wlr fails to start

You can't and shouldn't want to run the wlr portal on KDE. What's the problem with xdg-desktop-portal-kde ?

Megalodonix

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Registered: 2024-03-12

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED] Plasma Wayland, xdg-desktop-portal-wlr fails to start

Was unable to record and screen share on Wayland, and attempting to start or display status for the KDE portal via systemctl did nothing.
Anyways, I managed to fix(?) the issue by removing then re-installing Plasma entirely

Marking as solved for now...
I Apologize for the inconvenience

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