Comment 29 for bug 1003185

I experience the same symptoms on Kubuntu 14.04 LTS running the following kernel: 3.13.0-65-generic #106-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 22:08:27 UTC 2015 x86_64

I am another long time Shutter user and have used it successfully in KDE since Kubuntu 13.04. However, I have not used it for a while (couple of months) so I am unable to point out the exact time it broke. Starting from approximately 3.13.0-61-generic kernel update I experience system-wide multiple appearing and disappearing issues, among them with inotify (e.g. SpaceFM file manager was affected for some time). That is the issues are hard to reproduce / are fixed (~disappear) in the next kernel update (just an impression, untested).

Workaround suggested in #16 by misterich (apt-get install gnome) works for. So it seems to be indeed some dependency issue potentially triggered by kernel updates.

For the sake of completeness, my terminal output:

(shutter:22480): gnome-vfs-modules-WARNING **: Could not initialize inotify
INFO: DBus connection to org.freedesktop.compiz failed --> skipping compiz related tasks
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.compiz was not provided by any .service files
INFO: DBus connection to org.freedesktop.compiz failed --> skipping compiz related task
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.compiz was not prov
GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 665 was not found when attempting to remove it at /usr/bin/
*** unhandled exception in callback:
*** Can't call method "cancel" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/shutter line 5655.
*** ignoring at /usr/bin/shutter line 2893.