gui_dbus_name_lost message holding up gimp

[American_Citizen]

Last night I tried to install the bimp gimp plugin tool, but the make failed since a missing tool "gimptool" could not be found on my system. I also tried to see if the yast2 software tools could locate this tool, but to no success.

Now whenever I start up gimp, I hit a delay around 30 seconds or so then the following message appears:

gui_dbus_name_lost: the name "org.gimp.GIMP.UI" could not be acquired on the bus.

running gimp with the --verbose option shows:

INIT: gimp_initialize
INIT: gimp_real_initialize
gui_dbus_name_lost: the name "org.gimp.GIMP.UI" could not be acquired on the bus

And the about 20-30 sec delay is occurring here.

Since I have removed and reinstalled all the gimp software using the software manager, I don't believe that this problem is with the gimp software itself but lies somewhere else.

Is this the correct forum to ask this question? Or perhaps try a GNOME forum?

The 30 second delay is not tolerable, especially when I had over 24 gimp photos to redo just this morning.

Thanks for suggestions.

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Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150500.55.83-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 6 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-1650 v2 @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: HP Z420 Workstation

[Ofnuts]

gimptool is probably in some gimp-dev package.

What is happening here is at Gimp is trying to see if there is another instance already running, and to do so it checks if it is registered on the dbus, if if it find it it forwards any parameters and exits.

IMHO getting a timeout there isn't a problem with Gimp but with something broken in your DBUS, possibly some process hung in a callback. Two things to try:

• reboot or logout/login to try to reset the DBUS (there may be other ways to do this...)
  
• start Gimp with a with a --new-instance argument which could make it skip searching for an existing instance