On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 22:18:07 +0100 Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> Thanks, for me the culprint is 'dconf worker' (I see it being killed > with a 'timeout error') about 90s after preceding message. > > I do not know where it comes from, I have dconf-service installed as > a dependency of many things, thus it is not removable. However I do > not find any messages about dconf, and what does not work correctly. > > SO now the question is what the fuck is dconf doing, and how to > correct it (and no I have no idea of how dconf works, and even what > problem it is intended to solve. Well, there are plenty of resources for finding out what something does. "man dconf" is a bust. More fruitful: charles@hawk:~/versioned$ apt-cache search dconf dconf-cli - simple configuration storage system - utilities dconf-gsettings-backend - simple configuration storage system - GSettings back-end dconf-service - simple configuration storage system - D-Bus service libdconf-dev - simple configuration storage system - development files libdconf-doc - simple configuration storage system - documentation libdconf1 - simple configuration storage system - runtime library dconf-editor - simple configuration storage system - graphical editor libzadc4 - accelerated libz implementation (Accelerated Data Compression/ADC) libc-bin - GNU C Library: Binaries libmed-tools - Runtime tools to handle MED files pg-cloudconfig - Set optimized defaults for PostgreSQL in virtual environments charles@hawk:~/versioned$ apt-cache show dconf-service Package: dconf-service Source: dconf Version: 0.38.0-2 Installed-Size: 110 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, libdconf1 (= 0.38.0-2), libc6 (>= 2.28), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.55.2) Recommends: dconf-gsettings-backend Description-en: simple configuration storage system - D-Bus service DConf is a low-level key/value database designed for storing desktop environment settings. . This package contains the DConf service, which applications talk to using D-Bus in order to obtain their settings. It is mostly used by the GSettings backend. Description-md5: 8339e79de2cc17111e9f391efbb6d79f Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/dconf Tag: role::shared-lib Section: libs Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/d/dconf/dconf-service_0.38.0-2_amd64.deb Size: 37368 MD5sum: ae01132eaebbe3db11bb8800822d8f55 SHA256: 639125f7a44d11f96661c61a07abbb58da0e5636ed406ac186adcef8651775c2 charles@hawk:~/versioned$ Buried in all that output is the web site, https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/dconf, which you can now look at to see what it does. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
