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Asked: 2022-12-08 17:56:43 +0800 CST

org.ayatana.bamf was not provided by any .service files

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I get this error in the openrazer snake application splash screen as an unknown error.

I assume because it's given such prominence it's important but I can't find any information anywhere on how to setup this service. There's no messages in any error logs regarding bamf.

Distro is kubuntu 22.04

Can someone point me to the documentation on setting this service up or just give me simple instructions for it please.

EDIT: I didn't add enough information here out of frustration.

I should have said I know which package provides the service, and that it is installed but the problem I had was that the service just wasn't starting.

Thanks to @muru I just needed to start the service as a user service.

kubuntu

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  1. Best Answer

    org.ayatana.bamf.service in this case is a D-Bus service, defined in the bamfdaemon package and provided by the bamfdaemon service. The bamfdaemon service happens to be a user service, so to start it you'd need to do:

    systemctl --user start bamfdaemon.service

    You probably might want to enable it so that it's started automatically in the future:

    systemctl --user enable bamfdaemon.service

    AFAICT, the bamfdaemon package seems to have done everything correctly (going by the docs) for D-Bus to automatically start the bamfdaemon service when the D-Bus service is needed. Both /usr/lib/systemd/user/bamfdaemon.service and /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.ayatana.bamf.service look like the example in the documentation. I don't know why this isn't working correctly and why you had to manually start the service.

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