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I'm on Ubuntu 23.10 with all updates. I have latest Transmission installed from the repo 4.0.2-1ubuntu3 (Help/About shows 4.0.2 (2a57b17031)).

Transmission is working. I can download/upload etc....

I've done some more investigating on this, and it appears to be related to xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service failing on initial startup. Log shows:


Jan 13 11:36:47 user Dependency failed for...

I have had the same issue. What I have noticed is that many apps are very slow to open when you first log in; Thunderbird (.deb), Terminal (.deb), Settings. If you wait a minute or two, the apps open...

I may have misled you. I upgraded months ago, so have already rebooted autoclean/autoremoved etc. I only noticed them in the past few days.

The system boots and works AFAICT, but I dont' know why...

I'm on 20.10 (upgraded from 20.04 etc) and have noticed some errors I hadn't seen before.

I've extracted the following from the log, with the preceding 10 lines of log from each occurence.


...

OK, after trying a few things, the purging and reinstalling nvidia drivers worked:



sudo apt purge nvidia*
reboot
Open Software & Updates/Additional Drivers, and selected the latest (455...

I have a Dell 5587 laptop. 20.04 was working fine. Using nvidia drivers, with Prime profiles allowed me to select Intel or Nvidia cards.

I've just upgraded to 20.10. Everything seemed to go well....

Well, further into my quest, I was looking through logs and came across packagekitd, which I recalled I used to get a message about it needing to stop before Software Updater would run.

Searching...

Installed synaptic and done ;). That seems to have removed the service too.



I just did sudo apt udpate and sudo apt upgrade. All packages are up to date and there's nothing to do. sudo apt...

I didn't actually touch the service. I did `sudo apt-get remove unattended-upgrades`. I assumed it would take care of the service as part of any install/remove...

Yes, I've done update/upgrade and...

Bit the bullet and purged dnsmasq. Haven't run through everything, but I'm typing this on the internet, so at least ubuntuforums.org is being resolved :)

Thanks for your help! Feels so much better...

Also, I chmod -x snapd and that seems to work as we intended. I do get some errors in log about systemd couldn't start snap daemon (permission denied :p as expected). Snap apps seem to run fine. And...

Cool thanks for the explain, I'll give that a go.


Re snaps:


Wow. That's enough to make me want to uninstall it.

Sadly I do have a couple of snaps installed. I'll have to check if there...

$apt-mark showmanual | grep -F dnsmasq
dnsmasq



$apt-cache rdepends --installed dnsmasq
dnsmasq
Reverse Depends:
dnsmasq-base
dnsmasq-base

$ apt-get -s purge dnsmasq
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on...

Umm. no? What is it and why wouldn't it honour the configurations settings??


snapd.service is enabled/active, but I am prompted for upgrades to only normal packages even when no snaps are...

What I want to do is only check for software updates when I specifically ask for them.

So, in "Software & Updates", in the Updates tab, I have Automatically check for updates set to Never. But, it...

Well, to be frank, I really don't know, as I may have installed something that requires it? I'd like to stick to stock as much as possible. I'm not interested in running a DNS server on this laptop,...

I'm running 20.04 (up to date) on my laptop. Initial install was 19.04, and have upgraded at each release since then.

While everything seems to be running fine, I've found some log errors from...

I'm running 20.04 on a Dell 5587 laptop.

I receive errors on boot



[ 1.956445] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Unable to query device: -5
[ 7.896411] psmouse serio1: Failed to enable mouse...

OK, I'm gonna have to tap out on this snap stuff before I lose it.

Marking as solved. In summary:



Uninstall and then reinstall snap
Uninstall snap and install via apt

Speech.

I have NO SPEECH.

I thought snap was a system that is supposed to address 'dependency hell'. But it has a system that supports dependencies, yet cannot even identify parents, children...

Just for my own curiosity, I snap remove'd gnome-calculator, then did a snap install gnome-calculator. And after waiting ages for it to install while at "Automatically connect eligible plugs and...

Wait, what?

So I've got 3.28 installed via snap and it doesn't update itself to later versions?

Now I'm confused:

gnome-shell --version shows:

GNOME Shell 3.34.3

As said above, the snap calculator was default standard for my initial install 19.04 and current 19.10 install.

snap refresh says All snaps up to date.

snap list:



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