Hi Bruce, (adding the bug back in cc: - please hit reply-all so others can follow a long too).
I've got some further questions below: On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:18:06PM -0500, Bruce Ikenaga wrote: > 1. My desktop is Mate. [..snip..] > > And 'sudo apt-get reinstall iio-sensor-proxy' completed without a problem > ... but as I was writing this draft, I thought to try 'sudo apt-get remove > iio-sensor-proxy' (no problem) and then 'sudo apt-get install > iio-sensor-proxy' . As before, I watnched the apt progress bar halt around > 40% of the way, nothing happened for 10 - 20 seconds, then I got logged > out! This isn't a normal logout - as before when I logged back in I had to > restart NetworkManager by hand, but it starts automatically on normal > logins. > > I'm attaching the new journal file produced after I got logged out, which > is now pretty small. If you want the old one, let me know how to get you a > 690MB file! > > dpkg now tells me that the package is installed. The iio-sensor-proxy > service isn't normally started. I don't think I have any devices that > should use it. > > Let me try another thing. 'apt-cache rdepends iio-sensor-proxy' shows > phosh, geoclue, gnome-shell, and gnome-settings-daemon. > > The first three aren't installed. gnome-settings-daemon was installed for > some reason ... okay, I just apt-get-removed it. And ... now doing 'sudo > apt-get remove iio-sensor-proxy' and 'sudo apt-get install > iio-sensor-proxy' does* not *cause a logout! I just tried those two > commands in succession 3 times! I don't know what removing > gnome-settings-daemon did to change things (if that was what did it). Thanks for providing those details! The final check would be to reinstall gnome-settings-daemon and see if you can trigger the problem again. I don't spot anything related to either g-s-d or iio-sensor-proxy in the logs so this is really odd. > > One final note: When I can successfully install the package, apt tells me: > "iio-sensor-proxy.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not > starting it." As I said, I probably have no devices that might use > it. It's DBus activated so shouldn't be even started when unused - that's what puzzles me. If you have gnome-settings-daemon installed, do you have any running processes starting with ` /usr/libexec/gsd-` in your mate session? Once thing i could imagine is that they're conflicting with mate's setting daemon and mate's setting daemon giving up closes your session (in that case iio-sensor-proxy would just be the trigger). I wonder if that would DBus activate iio-sensor-proxy - I still wouldn't know how that would log . Also can you check if iio-sensor-proxy is actually running as a process with gnome-settings-daemon installed? You have several logins/logouts in your log. Can you pinpoint at what time the logout happened so i can check the specific spot in the log? Cheers, -- Guido > > Thanks for your help and patience. I'll check tomorrow and provide any > other info that you might find helpful. And of course, if it seems like > this is just a random phase-of-the-moon thing you can just close it. Since > I don't need the package as far as I can tell, I will probably just remove > it eventually. Cheers, -- Guido
