Weird system tray icon and unable to shut down from the start menu

[Brody]

Hi, I've had a weird icon on my System Tray/XApp Status Applet for about a week now, either applet shows this and I imagine it's not a problem with either of them.
It's this little icon .
There is no tooltip, rightclick doesn't show anything, neither does normal left clicking or double clicking.
It coincided with Cinnamon giving this error when trying to shutdown
I tried stopping processes in the futex_wait_queue_me channel like another post recommended for that warning when shutting down, but no dice. I've been shutting down with the terminal for the past couple weeks or so.

Edit: spaced, here's some system info
OS: Linux Mint 21.3 x86_64
Kernel: 5.15.0-100-generic
Uptime: 2 hours, 5 mins
Packages: 2825 (dpkg), 42 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: Cinnamon 6.0.4
WM: Mutter (Muffin)
WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Orange (Mint-Y)
Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Orange [GTK2/3]
Icons: Mint-Y-Yaru [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal

[spamegg]

Hello Brody welcome to the Forum.
Please share your system info by going to:
Menu/System Reports/System Information/click "Copy"
and pasting it here.
(You can use the command inxi -Fxxxmprz on the Terminal.)

Can you try changing icon themes to see if any theme gives a proper icon to that tray app?
Can you tell us what kinds of applications you are running? Especially your Startup Applications.
What apps have you installed since a fresh install of Mint?

[Brody]

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-100-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: Z370 Killer SLI/ac
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P1.20
    date: 11/27/2017
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.27 GiB used: 10.97 GiB (35.1%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4300 high: 4301 min/max: 800/4700 cores: 1: 4300
    2: 4300 3: 4300 4: 4300 5: 4300 6: 4300 7: 4300 8: 4300 9: 4300 10: 4300
    11: 4301 12: 4300 bogomips: 88796
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER] driver: nvidia
    v: 535.161.07 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    off: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, Unknown-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1f06 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 101 s-size: 483x272mm (19.0x10.7")
    s-diag: 554mm (21.8")
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102
    size: 476x268mm (18.7x10.6") diag: 546mm (21.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.161.07 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASRock
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Kingston HyperX 7.1 Audio type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-10:7 chip-ID: 0951:16a4
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-100-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASRock driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak]
    driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 06:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-12:8 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci1 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 sub-v: 1100 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 1100
  Device-2: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-8:5 chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0
    lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 237e hci-v: 5.2 rev: 237e
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 8.62 TiB used: 568.97 GiB (6.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra II 480GB size: 447.13 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 00RL scheme: MBR
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST8000DM004-2CX188 size: 7.28 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5425 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 284.48 GiB (31.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdc1
  ID-3: /home/asshat size: 915.32 GiB used: 284.48 GiB (31.1%) fs: ecryptfs
    source: ERR-102
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 40 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 40%
Repos:
  Packages: 2867 apt: 2825 flatpak: 42
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc arch=amd64] https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/stable virginia main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ngrok.list
    1: deb https://ngrok-agent.s3.amazonaws.com buster main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/obsproject-obs-studio-jammy.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/obsproject-obs-studio-jammy.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu jammy main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://mirrors.usinternet.com/mint/packages virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pbek-qownnotes-jammy.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/pbek-qownnotes-jammy.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/pbek/qownnotes/ubuntu jammy main
Info:
  Processes: 401 Uptime: 3h 22m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5
  Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13

I've installed a few things, like emulators, Krita, Steam, a few other things like qBittorent and unrar.
This is what it looks like with mint-x icons, the only one that significantly changed it

[spamegg]

I've never heard of Unrar, is that a Windows app? That might be a possible culprit if it likes to stay running in the background on the system tray.

[Brody]

No it's a linux app, it's a community port to debian that you can find on the official Winrar website. Just let's you open and extract .rar files. You can find it on the Linux Mint software manager. Uninstalling it to check did not remove the icon or issue.

[Brody]

OK well it's gone now. There's one a couple things that could have fixed it:
- Something updated and its just fixed.
- My VPN (which was stuck on and had to be manually turned off by deleting the openvpn files associated with it) was the cause of the icon and error. This I think is the most likely.