On Thursday, July 16, 2020 1:22:59 PM EDT stan via users wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:53:41 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" <gtwilliams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A few weeks ago I installed F32-KDE fresh on a workstation (a disk > > drive failed). All of a sudden last night Portal service was > > started (whatever that is). I did nothing that I know of to > > trigger this. Furthermore, since updating after installing this > > system, that service has never been started until now. > > > > Directly after the Portal service started, I see error messages > > coming from pipewire (whatever that is). > > xdg-desktop-portal.x86_64 : Portal frontend service to flatpak > > Summary : Media Sharing Server > Description : > PipeWire is a multimedia server for Linux and other Unix like operating > systems. Thank you, Stan. Of course, those descriptions do very little to allow me to understand what this stuff is. Web searches (which I did do after seeing the log messages) indicate that this stuff is about *sharing* desktops. I cannot imagine why this stuff starts up a little after midnight local time, when I did not do anything to indicate that I wanted to share my desktop. And with whom?! Very strange, indeed. > > Can anyone tell me what this is all about and why it happens now? > > I don't know for sure, but it looks like Portal monitors sites (like > flathub) on the web, and when there are updates, launches itself and > pipewire. There is probably a default conf file somewhere that > controls its behavior. Hmmm. I used to be in charge of what got updated and when it got updated on my own machine. You indicate that there's another path with which to install software that I am no longer in charge of. That's alarming. Especially since I didn't ask for it. > Since it is a systemd service (from your output), you should be able > to mask it if you never want it to run. That will probably take > care of pipewire starting as well. I knew how to do do that, but thank you. I went one better and simply removed those two packages from my system. If, for any reason it turns out I later need them, I can reinstall them. Erasing xdg-desktop-portal offered to erase a bunch of leaves no longer needed, including flatpak. My system's 150 MB smaller now. :-) > It seems that a lot of dependencies were not installed with it, as > all the failures attest. If you want to use it, you should probably > reinstall it so the necessary dependencies for it to function are > pulled in. Well, there's the odd thing, isn't it. Before, dnf would always solve dependencies and install them when a package was installed. Now there seems to be another path used for software installation and it doesn't know how to handle dependencies. I don't guess I need this stuff, for sure. Thanks again for the reply. -- Garry T. Williams _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
