Failed to start touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon. On Ubuntu 23.10

[omarhammad]

× touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/touchegg.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: core-dump) since Fri 2023-10-20 03:16:29 CEST; 13h ago
Duration: 177ms
Process: 17460 ExecStart=/usr/bin/touchegg (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
Main PID: 17460 (code=dumped, signal=ABRT)
CPU: 20ms

Oct 20 03:16:29 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at >
Oct 20 03:16:29 omarhammad systemd[1]: Stopped touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.
Oct 20 03:16:29 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 20 03:16:29 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Oct 20 03:16:29 omarhammad systemd[1]: Failed to start touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.

[JoseExposito]

Could you attach the output of journalctl -u touchegg -b, please? Does this happens always or is it a single crash? Does the same error happen if you manually restart the service (sudo systemctl restart touchegg.service)?

[omarhammad]

It happened after i updated ubuntu from 23.04 to 23.10
this is the output after i exectued : journalctl -u touchegg -b
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: Started touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[1876]: Touchégg v2.0.17.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[1876]: Starting Touchégg in client mode
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[1876]: terminate called after throwing an instance of '>
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[1876]: what(): Error opening your X11 display. Make >
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, >
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Scheduled restart job, restart cou>
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: Stopped touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: Started touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2323]: Touchégg v2.0.17.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2323]: Starting Touchégg in client mode
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2323]: terminate called after throwing an instance of '>
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2323]: what(): Error opening your X11 display. Make >
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, >
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: touchegg.service: Scheduled restart job, restart cou>
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: Stopped touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: Started touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2568]: Touchégg v2.0.17.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2568]: Starting Touchégg in client mode
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2568]: terminate called after throwing an instance of '>
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2568]: what(): Error opening your X11 display. Make >

also the restart is not working with the service

[didiercapozzi]

Exact same problem here

[JoseExposito]

Something weird is going on, the D-Bus service is trying to start Touchégg in client mode:

Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad systemd[1]: Started touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2568]: Touchégg v2.0.17.
Oct 23 14:21:36 omarhammad touchegg[2568]: Starting Touchégg in client mode

The expected output is:

Oct 28 11:19:05 fedora systemd[1]: Started touchegg.service - Touchégg Daemon.
Oct 28 11:19:05 fedora touchegg[5542]: Touchégg v2.0.16.
Oct 28 11:19:05 fedora touchegg[5542]: Starting Touchégg in daemon mode
Oct 28 11:19:05 fedora touchegg[5542]: Starting daemon server...
Oct 28 11:19:05 fedora touchegg[5542]: Generating D-Bus introspection data
Oct 28 11:19:05 fedora touchegg[5542]: Creating D-Bus server
Oct 28 11:19:05 fedora touchegg[5542]: Server started at address unix:abstract=touchegg

In my distro, the service is installed in /lib/systemd/system/touchegg.service. Could you attach the contents of the service file, please? Here is mine:

$ cat /lib/systemd/system/touchegg.service
[Unit]
Description=Touchégg Daemon
Documentation=https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg/tree/master/installation#readme

[Service]
Type=simple
Group=input
ExecStart=/usr/bin/touchegg --daemon
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note the --daemon flag in ExecStart. Your log suggest that the service is placed in /etc/systemd/system/touchegg.service.

[JoseExposito]

Oh! And how did you installed Touchégg? From the PPA or deb package?

[ihtisham-sudo]

Oh! And how did you installed Touchégg? From the PPA or deb package?

Installed from deb because PPA was not working from me, Getting this error :
Touchégg v2.0.17.
Starting Touchégg in client mode
Parsing your configuration file...
Using configuration file "/home/ihtishamsudo/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf"
Configuration parsed successfully
Connecting to Touchégg daemon...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
Error connecting to Touchégg daemon: Could not connect: Connection refused
Reconnecting in 5 seconds...