Hi, On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 01:32:47PM -0500, Bruce Ikenaga wrote: > Guido, > > (replying to all this time) > > I sent a second mail last night - I tried reinstalling > gnome-settings-daemon, then doing the remove-install routine on > iio-sensor-proxy and nothing happened. > > I just did the following on the laptop: install gnome-settings-daemon, > remove iio-sensor-proxy, install iio-sensor-proxy (no logout, but it's not > running), systemctl start iio-sensor-proxy. The last command produced > nothing except a command prompt - no indication that it didn't start. But I > just did > > systemctl list-units | grep "iio" > > systemctl list-units | grep "gnome" > > systemctl list-units | grep "gsd" > > ps -ef | grep "iio" > > ps -ef | grep "gnome" > > ps -ef | grep "gsd" > > In no case does grep find anything. I did > > systemctl enable iio-sensor-proxy > > and I get "The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, > RequiredBy=, Also=, Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and > DefaultInstance= for template units). This means they are not meant to be > enabled using systemctl. ... etc." How can I enable the unit so I can > start it?
It's DBus activated so it'll start when a service requests it. For debugging you can run /usr/sbin/iio-sensor-proxy by hand (as root). > > (This is on the T420 laptop. I've never used the gnome desktop, but I *think > *years ago I wanted to do some desktop tweaks, and thinking that Mate was > Gnome 2-based, I installed gnome-settings-daemon - then realized Mate has > its own configuration editor and installed that. So that explains why > gnome-settings-daemon was on the T420.) > > But I reinstalled the OS on the desktop one month ago when I got a new > drive, and *didn't *install gnome-settings-daemon there - but I noticed the > logout problem on the desktop once. gsd was *not *installed on the desktop > when I checked last night. I've never been able to reproduce it a second > time on the desktop. I do believe this is a problem in mate - not iio-sensor-proxy since a restart of the daemon itself basically can't log you out - as far as i can tell. Cheers, -- Guido > Re the time on the log - I wrote the second-to-the-last mail I sent last > night at Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:18:06PM -0500 (according to the header), > and I sent it right after the last forced logout I noted in the mail. I > attached the journal created after logging back in (the small journal file) > - then I sent a final mail with the earlier (large) journal file. So the > last forced logout would have occurred around 8:30 - 9:15 PM EST. > > One other thing in case it's relevant - I'm on debian testing, and I > habitually do a dist-upgrade on my machines nearly daily. But I don't have > needrestart or checkrestart installed, so I rely on the upgrade process to > restart anything it thinks need restarting. > > Bruce I. > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 8:26 AM Guido Günther <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ... > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > ----- > [email protected]
