Bug#839912: gnome-settings-daemon: failed cmd exectuion on gdm display

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 15:30 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 15:36 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > I don't know why it'd want to run a command, as user root, expecially
> > when I have my desktop session active. There are no visible side effects
> > to this failed attempt, but this does not look correct.
> 
> Actually, from a power savings perspective, this has substantial negative
> impact. Is there no way to disable this ?

Thanks to Laurent for the hint on loginctl, I can see the process. Now the thing
is, this is not part of a service, in which case I'd have disabled it.

There should be way to disable processes, if need be.

rrs at learner:~$ loginctl user-status -al 121
Debian-gdm (121)
           Since: Sun 2016-11-27 15:48:48 IST; 1 day 2h ago
           State: online
        Sessions: c1
          Linger: no
            Unit: user-121.slice
                  ├─session-c1.scope
                  │ ├─ 3740 gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-launch-environment]
                  │ ├─ 5304 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session gnome-session --
autostart /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart
                  │ ├─ 5311 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt1 -displayfd 3 -auth
/run/user/121/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3
                  │ ├─ 5858 /usr/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-binary --
autostart /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart
                  │ ├─ 5911 /usr/bin/gnome-shell
                  │ ├─ 5945 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
                  │ ├─ 6061 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulse/gconf-helper
                  │ ├─ 6200 xbrlapi -q
                  │ └─22524 /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
                  └─user at 121.service
                    ├─at-spi-dbus-bus.service
                    │ ├─5896 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus-launcher
                    │ ├─5901 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-
spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3
                    │ └─5904 /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd --use-
gnome-session
                    ├─dbus.service
                    │ ├─5831 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd:
- --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
                    │ └─6063 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconf/gconfd-2
                    ├─init.scope
                    │ ├─5239 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
                    │ └─5244 (sd-pam)
                    └─xdg-permission-store.service
                      └─6076 /usr/lib/flatpak/xdg-permission-store

Nov 28 16:11:14 learner gnome-settings-daemon.desktop[6085]: This incident has
been reported.
Nov 28 16:11:20 learner gnome-settings-[6085]: Invalid id 4 passed to
g_bus_unown_name()
Nov 28 16:11:20 learner gnome-session[5858]: gnome-session-binary[5858]:
WARNING: Child process 6085 was already dead.
Nov 28 16:11:20 learner gnome-session-binary[5858]: WARNING: Child process 6085
was already dead.
Nov 28 16:11:20 learner gnome-settings-[22524]: g_task_return_error: assertion
'error != NULL' failed
Nov 28 16:11:20 learner gnome-settings-[22524]: failed to obtain
org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile auth
Nov 28 16:12:10 learner gnome-settings-[22524]: Could not create GnomeRRScreen:
Timeout was reached
Nov 28 16:13:25 learner gnome-settings-[22524]: failed to get screens: Timeout
was reached
Nov 28 16:13:25 learner gnome-settings-[22524]: Failed to grab accelerators:
Timeout was reached (24)
Nov 28 18:29:53 learner systemd[5239]: Time has been changed
2016-11-28 / 18:35:37 ♒♒♒  ☺  
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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