On 2022-12-28 19:11, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 12:23:46 +0100, Darshaka Pathirana wrote: >> ❯ systemctl status --user stop xdg-desktop-portal >> Unit stop.service could not be found. > > This is the wrong command, hence the error message. Use: > > systemctl --user stop xdg-desktop-portal.service > > You can omit the .service extension as a shorthand, but you can't combine > status and stop in one command.
Oh, thx for the pointer, "status" was added by mistake.
I was in the "belief" (*sigh*, sorry!), that the service can not be
stopped, once the service file / package has been removed. I took the
error message as is.
FTR, this it how it looks like after the packages is removed (and after
the user service was started before):
❯ sudo apt remove xdg-desktop-portal
❯ ps -ax | grep xdg-desktop-portal
223206 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal
224646 pts/50 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto xdg-desktop-portal
❯ systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of
xdg-desktop-portal.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl --user
daemon-reload' to reload units.
● xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal.service; bad;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-01-04 15:26:29 CET; 15min ago
Main PID: 223206 (xdg-desktop-por)
Tasks: 5 (limit: 18880)
Memory: 1.7M
CPU: 374ms
CGroup:
/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/xdg-desktop-portal.service
└─223206 /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal
Jan 04 15:26:29 executor systemd[4802]: Starting Portal service...
Jan 04 15:26:29 executor systemd[4802]: Started Portal service.
❯ systemctl --user stop xdg-desktop-portal
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of
xdg-desktop-portal.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl --user
daemon-reload' to reload units.
❯ systemctl --user status xdg-desktop-portal
Unit xdg-desktop-portal.service could not be found.
at 2023-01-04 15:39:42 +01:00 ❯ ps -ax | grep xdg-desktop-portal
238026 pts/50 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto xdg-desktop-portal
>> I think (the) xdg-desktop-portal user service(s) should be stopped before
>> removing the package. Is that possible?
>
> Not really: maintainer scripts happen in the context of the overall system
> (as root) and there is not really a good way to inject service-management
> commands into user sessions. Other per-user services like PulseAudio,
> Pipewire, gpg-agent and so on are not stopped when you remove them either.
Ok. After all, the user one *can* manually stop the service after the
package has been removed.
And: "Failed connect to PipeWire: Couldn't connect to PipeWire" was
also not shown anymore, after I started "xdg-desktop-portal".
All is good. Please close the bug (and mark it as obsolete/invalid, if possible.
I could not find how to do it).
Thx for your support!
Best,
- Darsha
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