Re: Long pauses using Evolution

[Ed Greshko]

On 2020-01-17 08:13, Robert G (Doc) Savage via users wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 17:59 +0000, Anthony F McInerney wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 05:24, Robert G (Doc) Savage via users <[e-mail] > wrote:
> > > I'm having persistent problems with Evolution fetching and reading Pop mail from a local ISP. Every time I connect to a different folder, set a filter, or click on send/receive, there's a 24-26 second pause before the result is displayed. I see the same pauses with existing, already downloaded mail. Thee pauses affect the entire system. When I run "journalctl -fa" in a Terminal window I see the following:
> > >
> > > Jan 15 23:01:34 
> > > tiger.protogeek.org
> > > http://tiger.protogeek.org
> > >  kernel: Lockdown: pmdakvm: debugfs access is restricted;
> > >
> > > see
> > >
> > > man kernel_lockdown.7
> > >
> > > Jan 15 23:02:08 
> > > tiger.protogeek.org
> > > http://tiger.protogeek.org
> > >  xdg-desktop-por[8858]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list: Cannot invoke method; proxy is for the well-known name org.gnome.Shell without an owner, and proxy was constructed with the G_DBUS_PROXY_FLAGS_DO_NOT_AUTO_START flag
> >
> > https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/215
> >
> > This bug appears to be directly related, there are comments with the fixes, but it seems to depend which desktop environment you went with.
>
> Anthony,
>
> I'm using MATE.

It isn't clear to me that your issue is impacted by this.  I too am seeing "spamming" of the journal but
haven't encountered any degradation in applications and have been ignoring it.  (I don't use
evolution)

However, since this thread came up I decided to see what would happen if I removed xdg-desktop-portal.

Since it only resulted in

Removed flatpak-1.4.3-3.fc31.x86_64                  @@System
    Removed flatpak-session-helper-1.4.3-3.fc31.x86_64   @@System
    Removed plasma-discover-flatpak-5.17.5-1.fc31.x86_64 @@System
    Removed xdg-desktop-portal-1.4.2-3.fc31.x86_64       @@System
    Removed xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.4.0-1.fc31.x86_64   @@System
    Removed xdg-desktop-portal-kde-5.17.5-1.fc31.x86_64  @@System

and since I don't make use of flatpak, I did remove it.

The journal is no longer being spammed.

You may want to consider doing a remove of xdg-desktop-portal to see what else will be removed and
if you don't need it, remove and see if your problem with evolution is resolved.