Long pauses using Evolution

[Robert G (Doc) Savage]

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 kernel: Lockdown: pmdakvm: debugfs
access is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7Jan 15 23:02:08
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 flagJan 15 23:02:32
tiger.protogeek.org pcp-pmie[2148]: High aggregate context switch rate 
48447ctxsw/s(a)tiger.protogeek.orgJan 15 23:02:34 tiger.protogeek.org
kernel: Lockdown: pmdakvm: debugfs access is restricted; see man
kernel_lockdown.7Jan 15 23:03:08 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 flagJan 15 23:03:34
tiger.protogeek.org kernel: Lockdown: pmdakvm: debugfs access is
restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7Jan 15 23:04:08
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 flagJan 15 23:04:34
tiger.protogeek.org kernel: Lockdown: pmdakvm: debugfs access is
restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7

When I try to view man kernel_lockdown.7, I get "No manual entry for
kernel_lockdown.7"


This is a fully-updated F31 system. Evolution v3.334.2-1.fc31.


Has anyone else encountered pauses like this with Evolution?


--Doc Savage
    Fairview Heights, IL

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 23:24 -0600, Robert G (Doc) Savage via users
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:
>   
[...]
>  This is a fully-updated F31 system. Evolution v3.334.2-1.fc31.
>  
>  
>  Has anyone else encountered pauses like this with Evolution? 
You're more likely to get useful answers by asking on the Evolution
mailing list at https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list

Remember to state your version of Evolution (as you have here) and note
that the list is not specifically for Fedora.

poc

[Robert G (Doc) Savage]

On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 11:05 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 23:24 -0600, Robert G (Doc) Savage via users
>  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:
>  > 
>  [...]
>  > This is a fully-updated F31 system. Evolution v3.334.2-1.fc31.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Has anyone else encountered pauses like this with Evolution?
>  
>  You're more likely to get useful answers by asking on the Evolution
>  mailing list at 
>  https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
>  
>  Remember to state your version of Evolution (as you have here) and
>  note
>  that the list is not specifically for Fedora.
>   
Patrick,

Thanks for the suggestion. I've joined that list and posted the
question. Now I'll just have to sit back and wait for any responses.

--Doc

[Anthony F McInerney]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 05:24, Robert G (Doc) Savage via users <
users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; 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 kernel: Lockdown: pmdakvm: debugfs access is
> restricted; *see man kernel_lockdown.7*
>
>  Jan 15 23:02:08 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.

[Robert G (Doc) Savage]

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 <
>  users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; 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 kernel: Lockdown: pmdakvm:
>  > debugfs access is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7Jan 15
>  > 23:02:08 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.

--Doc Savage
     Fairview Heights, IL

[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
> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:[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.


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