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Meld hangs at startup and displays the error: Failed to register: Timeout was reached

Hi,

I am using meld since a long time ago, but since a recent upgrade on my Suse Leap 15.1, it seems meld is not working anymore and I would like to have some help to identify the problem.

I have tried:

  • official Suse Meld 3.18.0 (3.18.0-lp151.2.1)
  • Unofficial Suse Meld 3.20.2 (3.20.2-lp151.141.1)
  • compiled version from git clone of repo

First, here is the screen output when I try to start meld:

meld

(meld:17905): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-x is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(meld:17905): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:69:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-y is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(meld:17905): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:73:46: The style property GtkScrolledWindow:scrollbars-within-bevel is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

and after a while this appears:

Failed to register: Timeout was reached

See the attached file for a run with strace:

strace_output.txt

What can I test next to track down this bug?

Thanks,

eric